Subj : New ELF specification for public review
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From : LWN.net
Date : Wed Sep 03 2025 15:00:08

New ELF specification for public review

Date:
Wed, 03 Sep 2025 13:46:17 +0000

Description:
Cary Coutant has announced a draft for version 4.3 of the
Executable and Linking Format (ELF) object file format. The
specification was formerly part of the Unix System
V Release 4 (SVR4) gABI document : The last published gABI documents were the 
Fourth Edition and a draft
of Edition 4.1, both published in March 1997. The ELF portions of the
document were updated several times between 1998 and 2015, published
online [...] I've published the last draft from 2015 as Version 4.2, and 
collected
the several changes since then, along with new e_machine values, as
Version 4.3. The source for the draft is on GitHub in reStructuredText 
format, and Coutant has collected the mailing list discussions for
changes in 4.3 as GitHub
issues . Thanks to Jose E. Marchesi for the tip.

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