Article 6ZRN0 New ELF specification for public review

New ELF specification for public review

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Cary Coutant has announceda draft for version 4.3 of theExecutable and Linking Format (ELF) object file format. Thespecification was formerly part of the Unix SystemV Release 4 (SVR4) gABI document:

The last published gABI documents were the Fourth Edition and a draftof Edition 4.1, both published in March 1997. The ELF portions of thedocument were updated several times between 1998 and 2015, publishedonline [...]

I've published the last draft from 2015 as Version 4.2, and collectedthe several changes since then, along with new e_machine values, asVersion 4.3.

The source for the draft is on GitHub in reStructuredTextformat, and Coutant has collected the mailing list discussions forchanges in 4.3 as GitHubissues. Thanks to Jose E. Marchesi for the tip.

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