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    <title>64-Bit ELF V2 ABI Specification</title>
    <subtitle>Power Architecture </subtitle>

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          System Software Work Group
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      <para>The Executable and Linking Format (ELF) defines a linking interface for executables 
      and shared objects in two parts: the first part is the generic System V ABI, the second part 
      is a processor-specific supplement.</para>
      <para>This document, the OpenPOWER ABI for Linux Supplement for the Power Architecture 64-bit ELF
      V2 ABI, is the OpenPOWER-compliant processor-specific supplement for use with ELF V2 on 64-bit 
      IBM Power Architecture® systems. This is not a complete System V ABI supplement because it
      does not define any library interfaces.</para>
      <para>This document establishes both big-endian and little-endian application binary 
      interfaces. OpenPOWER-compliant processors in the 64-bit Power Architecture can execute 
      in either big-endian or little-endian mode. Executables and executable-generated 
      data (in general) that subscribes to either byte ordering is not portable to a system running in the
      other mode.</para>
      <para>This document is a Standards Track, Work Group work product owned by the
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      <link xlink:href="http://tbd.openpowerfoundation.org">TBD</link>.</para>
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