1 /* Special .init and .fini section support.
2 Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it
6 and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 In addition to the permissions in the GNU Library General Public
11 License, the Free Software Foundation gives you unlimited
12 permission to link the compiled version of this file with other
13 programs, and to distribute those programs without any restriction
14 coming from the use of this file. (The Library General Public
15 License restrictions do apply in other respects; for example, they
16 cover modification of the file, and distribution when not linked
17 into another program.)
19 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be
20 useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty
21 of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
22 GNU Library General Public License for more details.
24 You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
25 License along with the GNU C Library; see the file COPYING.LIB. If not,
26 write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
27 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
29 /* Define an ELF note identifying the operating-system ABI that the
30 executable was created for. The ELF note information identifies a
31 particular OS or coordinated development effort within which the
32 ELF header's e_machine value plus (for dynamically linked programs)
33 the PT_INTERP dynamic linker name and DT_NEEDED shared library
34 names fully identify the runtime environment required by an
37 The general format of ELF notes is as follows.
38 Offsets and lengths are bytes or (parenthetical references) to the
39 values in other fields.
41 offset length contents
46 - null-terminated ASCII string, padded to 4-byte alignment
49 The GNU project and cooperating development efforts (including the
50 Linux community) use note type 1 and a vendor name string of "GNU"
51 for a note descriptor that indicates ABI requirements. The note data
52 is four 32-bit words. The first of these is an operating system
53 number (0=Hurd, 1=Linux, 2=Solaris, ...) and the remaining three
54 identify the earliest release of that OS that supports this ABI.
55 See abi-tags (top level) for details. */
57 #include <abi-tag.h> /* OS-specific ABI tag value */
59 /* The linker (GNU ld 2.8 and later) recognizes an allocated section whose
60 name begins with `.note' and creates a PT_NOTE program header entry
63 .section ".note.ABI-tag", "a"
65 .long 1f - 0f /* name length */
66 .long 3f - 2f /* data length */
67 .long 1 /* note type */
68 0: .asciz "GNU" /* vendor name */
70 2: .long ABI_TAG /* note data: the ABI tag */
71 3: .align 4 /* pad out section */