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Re: Status of the ELF standard
- To: binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: Status of the ELF standard
- From: Jason Eckhardt <jle at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 16:10:50 -0700 (PDT)
- cc: msokolov at ivan dot Harhan dot ORG
>
>Originally ELF was defined in
>the System V ABI documentation from AT&T. Is this still the only ELF spec in
>existence, or is there now some committee tending the ELF standard and
>registering new processors, extensions, revisions, etc?
I believe that SCO is now the organization behind the ELF standard.
As far as I know, the spec. is still actively maintained (active may be
overstating it -- it isn't dead).
>Does this mean that there someone maintaining the ELF standard beyond the
>original spec
>in System V manuals? And what spec/version/etc. is the standard for the GNU
>Project and the Cygnus toolchain, if there is more than one? TIA for any clues.
I think the latest draft was made in June of 2000. It hasn't changed
drastically for some time. New architectures get added for the e_machine
field now and then.
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>Michael Sokolov Harhan Engineering Laboratory
>Public Service Agent International Free Computing Task Force
> International Engineering and Science Task Force