ELF branding / magic numbers

Ruslan Ermilov ru at freebsd.org
Thu Feb 5 01:55:51 PST 2004


On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:39:45AM +0000, Philip Reynolds wrote:
[...]
> Does the magic number not then support multiple ABI's per system
> architecture, or is there some part of the puzzle I'm missing?
> 
There's an EI_ABIVERSION byte following the EI_OSABI byte, which
is both documented in the elf(5) manpage, and is shown in the
``readelf -h'' output.


Cheers,
-- 
Ruslan Ermilov
FreeBSD committer
ru at FreeBSD.org
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