storage/resources/ResourcesFormat.tex

40 Resources provide a means to store structured but flat data in files. Unlike
49 Section \ref{file-formats} explains how the resources format is embedded in
61 In all file formats described in this section the resources are being located
127 In an ELF file, resources are appended to rather than contained in the
140 \code{kELFMinResourceAlignment} and the alignments of the segments in the file.
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,
175 even if they differ only in the format of the header (see section
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.
321   Contains special data as described in section \ref{resources-unknown}.
326   Must be the same value as given in the resources header for
335   Contains special data as described in section \ref{resources-unknown}.
345   Contains special data as described in section \ref{resources-unknown}.
350 structures. The number of entries in the table is the number of resources
351 stored in the file, that is the value specified by the
382 of this section. How this padding looks like is described in section
409 \code{index} the index of an unused field in \code{resources}, then it holds:
422 resource. Subsequent infos for resources of the same type are collected in
461   Specifies the type of the resources in the block.
557 presented in the preceding sections to achieve maximal compatibility.
560 for instance happen to occur in several files of the BeOS R5 distribution
589 The information contained in this document are obtained by analyzing
597 \item{Resources alignment in ELF files: Several tests with linker object files
603   the segment alignments to be found in the program header table,
606   well understood. The layout presented in figure \ref{fig:resources-layout}
608   in fact not even the exact length and meaning of the fields of the resources