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ELF
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The open, patent-free, extensible Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) first appeared in UNIX System V around 1997; in that same year, the 86open project was convocated (that original document seems to have been lost, but I have archived it).
The DWARF specification for debugging data was developed alongside and in reference to ELF, but is independent of object file formats (subject to certain minimal requirements).
Booting
- coreboot (formerly LinuxBIOS) can boot ELF images directly -- see mkelfimage
See also
- Working with libraries
- rpaths for coverage of the DT_RPATH/DT_RUNPATH dtags
- Wikipedia's ELF page is pretty good, especially wrt links
