Contents

• List of Tables
• List of Figures
  • Revision History
  
  
• Introduction
  • Differences from the Intel386 ABI
  
  
• Software Installation
• Low Level System Information
  • Machine Interface
    • Processor Architecture
    • Data Representation
  • Function Calling Sequence
    • Registers and the Stack Frame
    • The Stack Frame
    • Parameter Passing
  • Operating System Interface
    • Exception Interface
    • Special Registers
    • Virtual Address Space
    • Page Size
    • Virtual Address Assignments
  • Process Initialization
    • Auxiliary Vector
  • Coding Examples
    • Architectural Constraints
    • Position-Independent Function Prologue
    • Data Objects
    • Function Calls
    • Branching
    • Variable Argument Lists
  • DWARF Definition
    • DWARF Release Number
    • DWARF Register Number Mapping
  
  
• Object Files
  • ELF Header
    • Machine Information
  • Sections
  • Symbol Table
  • Relocation
    • Relocation Types
  
  
• Program Loading and Dynamic Linking
  • Program Loading
  • Dynamic Linking
    • Program Interpreter
    • Initialization and Termination Functions
  
  
• Libraries
  • C Library
    • Global Data Symbols
    • Floating Point Environment Functions
  • Unwind Library Interface
    • Exception Handler Framework
    • Data Structures
    • Throwing an Exception
    • Exception Object Management
    • Context Management
  
  
• Development Environment
• Execution Environment
• Conventions
  • GOT pointer and IP relative addressing
  • C++
  
  
• Linux Conventions
  • Execution of 32-bit Programs
  • AMD64 Linux Kernel Conventions
    • Calling Conventions
    • Required Processor Features
    • Miscelleaneous Remarks
  
  
• Index
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