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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.
 
Today, ELF is considered the standard format on Unix-alike systems. While it has some drawbacks (e.g., using up one of the scarce general purpose registers of the IA32IA-32 when using position-independent code), it is well supported and documented.
 
==File Structure==
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