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Re: ELF specification
- From: Vaptistis Anogeianakis <nomad at cornercase dot gr>
- To: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:15:04 +0300
- Subject: Re: ELF specification
- References: <51E166AE dot 3080401 at cornercase dot gr> <CAKOQZ8y2m+v1t6JkknE34sAt=sJXyRRgvBNmtBEpRsyW6b=Uxg at mail dot gmail dot com>
> Traditionally ELF has been managed by the owner of Unix, and the
> current owner of Unix is SCO or whatever they have evolved now. The
> current ELF spec can be found at http://sco.com/developers/gabi/ .
> ELF does not have a formal standards body, but you can contact the
> relevant people at the mailing list generic-abi@googlegroups.com (or
> see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/generic-abi). ELF does
> not depend on any other specification, though of course the
> processor-dependent parts require an understanding of the processor.
> For each processor that ELF supports, there is a processor supplement
> to the standard. You can find copies of the x86 ELF processor
> supplements in various places, including
> http://refspecs.linuxbase.org/ .
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Ian
>
Yep, that was helpful (and very interesting I might add!). Thanks!