Difference between revisions of "NRO"

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Revision as of 20:24, 18 February 2018

NRO is the executable format for non-ExeFS binaries.

It starts with the NRO-start structure then the "NRO" header and mainly describes .text, .rodata, and .data segments (like a short-form of ELF program headers):

NRO Start

Offset Size Description
0x0 0x4 Unused
0x4 0x4 MOD0 offset
0x8 0x8 Padding

NRO Header

Offset Size Description
0x0 4 Magic "NRO0"
0x4 4 ?
0x8 4 Total NRO filesize
0xC 4 ?
0x10 0x8 * 3 SegmentHeader[3]
0x28 0x4 bssSize
0x2C 0x4 ?
0x30 0x20 Value of "build id" from ELF's GNU .note section. Contains variable sized digest, up to 32bytes.
0x50 0x10 Padding
0x60 0x10 ?

SegmentHeader

Offset Size Description
0x0 4 FileOffset
0x4 4 Size