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.
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17 into another program.)
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26 write to the Free Software Foundation, 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
27 Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
31 /* The basic layout of note sections is specified by the ELF format. */
33 #define ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(sectname, sectflags, type, name) \
34 .section sectname, sectflags; \
35 .align 4; /* Notes are 4-byte aligned. */ \
36 .long 1f - 0f; /* 32-bit word: length of name field */ \
37 .long 3f - 2f; /* 32-bit word: length of desc field */ \
38 .long (type); /* 32-bit word: vendor-defined type field */ \
39 0: .asciz name; /* null-terminated string, any length: name */\
40 1: .align 4; /* Name data padded to 4-byte alignment. */ \
41 2: /* Here follows the "note descriptor" data, whose format \
42 is not specified by ELF. The vendor name and type field \
43 indicate what sort of data is found here. */
45 #define ELF_NOTE_END \
46 3: .align 4 /* Pad to 4-byte align the next note. */
49 /* The linker (GNU ld 2.8 and later) recognize an allocated section whose
50 name begins with `.note' and creates a PT_NOTE program header entry
53 Such a program header is the canonical way (at least in the free OS
54 community) to identify the OS environment ABI that the executable was
55 created for. The ELF note information identifies a particular OS or
56 coordinated development effort within which the ELF header's e_machine
57 value plus (for dynamically linked programs) the PT_INTERP dynamic
58 linker name and DT_NEEDED shared library names fully identify the
59 runtime environment required by an executable.
61 The GNU project and cooperating development efforts (including the Linux
62 community) use a vendor name string of "GNU", and a note type field with
63 value 1 for a note descriptor that indicates ABI requirements. */
65 #include <abi-tag.h> /* OS-specific ABI tag value */
67 ELF_NOTE_BEGIN(".note.ABI-tag", "a", 1, "GNU")