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Describe how ELF is part of the System V ABI
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ELF (Executable and Linkable Format) was designed by Unix System Laboratories while working with Sun Microsystems on SVR4 (UNIX System V Release 4.0). Consequently, ELF first appeared in Solaris 2.0 (aka SunOS 5.0), which is based on SVR4. The format is specified in the [[System V ABI]].
A very versatile file format, it was later picked up by many other operating systems for use as both executable files and as shared library files. It does distinguish between TEXT, DATA and BSS.
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