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The Base Platform ABI for the ARM Architecture [BPABI] governs the format and content of executable and shared object files generated by static linkers. It supports platform-specific executable files using post linking and provides a base standard that is used to derive a platform ABI. The standard defines three platform families based on the shared object model:
Bare metal
DLL-like
System V release 4 (SVr4).
The linker conforms to the BPABI and so enables you to:
link a collection of objects and libraries into a:
Bare metal executable image
BPABI DLL or SVr4 shared object
BPABI or SVr4 executable file.
link a collection of objects against shared libraries
partially link a collection of objects into an object that can be used as input to a subsequent link step.
The rest of this chapter describes linker support for SVr4 shared libraries.
See Base Platform ABI for the ARM Architecture [BPABI] for more information on BPABI DLLs.
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