1 /* Special .init and .fini section support.
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3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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22 Lesser General Public License for more details.
24 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
25 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
26 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
28 /* Define an ELF note identifying the operating-system ABI that the
29 executable was created for. The ELF note information identifies a
30 particular OS or coordinated development effort within which the
31 ELF header's e_machine value plus (for dynamically linked programs)
32 the PT_INTERP dynamic linker name and DT_NEEDED shared library
33 names fully identify the runtime environment required by an
36 The general format of ELF notes is as follows.
37 Offsets and lengths are bytes or (parenthetical references) to the
38 values in other fields.
40 offset length contents
45 - null-terminated ASCII string, padded to 4-byte alignment
48 The GNU project and cooperating development efforts (including the
49 Linux community) use note type 1 and a vendor name string of "GNU"
50 for a note descriptor that indicates ABI requirements. The note data
51 is four 32-bit words. The first of these is an operating system
52 number (0=Linux, 1=Hurd, 2=Solaris, ...) and the remaining three
53 identify the earliest release of that OS that supports this ABI.
54 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_OS /* note data: the ABI tag */
71 .long __ABI_TAG_VERSION
72 3: .p2align 2 /* pad out section */