storage/resources/ResourcesFormat.tex

41 attributes resources are part of the file contents and thus do not require a
42 special file system handling, but rather a special file format.
44 (resource files), on the other hand these are file formats extended to
49 Section \ref{file-formats} explains how the resources format is embedded in
50 different file formats. Section \ref{resources-format} discusses the resources
59 \label{file-formats}
61 In all file formats described in this section the resources are being located
68 after the magic number identifying the file format:
127 In an ELF file, resources are appended to rather than contained in the
128 regular data of the file. That is adding resources to an existing ELF file
130 table, section header table or sections), but will enlarge the file by some
133 Therefore two values have to be known: The size of the actual ELF file and the
135 a size field, it has to be deduced, where the file ends. This end offset is
140 \code{kELFMinResourceAlignment} and the alignments of the segments in the file.
153 a PEF file, but they are not aligned to any value. That is the resources
170 from the type of the file. x86 resource files contain little endian, PPC
171 resource files big endian data. The endianess of an ELF file is encoded in
174 As there is in fact no good reason to have different resource file formats,
176 \ref{file-formats}), it may be decided to use the x86 resource file format
184 The layout of the resources in a file is shown in figure
217   resource index subsection. The latter locates all other data in the file.
260   Specifies the number of resources stored in this file. May be 0.
351 stored in the file, that is the value specified by the
403 resources are written to a file, the space they will take is filled with the
565 \item{The third and fourth byte of the x86 resource file magic (the 0 bytes)