chelf - Change ELF headers

October 29, 2018 · View on GitHub

Changes or displays the stack size of an ELF binary.

This value is used by musl-libc to increase the default stack size.

chelf supports both ELF32 and ELF64.

Building

To build chelf a C compiler and a posix compatible libc are needed.

make

To install chelf:

cp chelf /usr/local/bin

read the stack size of a file:

chelf /bin/sh

change the stack size of a file:

chelf -s 1052672 /usr/bin/gnome-shell

See LICENSE