Hi I am looking for material on the internals of the program image, compiled using gcc in linux i.e., I would like to know how a program when compiled will look like. particularly on how each function call (say malloc) is translated in binary and how the program interacts with the operating system at runtime. I would appreciate if you could send me any material or links or other mailing lists where I can find such information. Thanks for the help. Sreekumar