ISO/IEC INTERNATIONAL STANDARD 23360-6 First edition 2006-12-15 Linux Standard Base (LSB) core specification 3.1 - Part 6: Specification for PPC64 architecture Specifications 3.1relativesaunoyaudebasenormaliseLinux(LSB)- Partie6:SpécificationspourI'architecturePPC64 Reference number ISO/IEC23360-6:2006(E) IEC ISO/IEC2006 ISO/IEC23360-6:2006(E) PDF disclaimer This PDF file may contain embedded typefaces. In accordance with Adobe's licensing policy, this file may be printed or viewed but accepts no liability in this area. Adobe is a trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated. Details of the software products used to create this PDF file can be found in the General Info relative to the file; the PDF-creation ?ISO/IEC2006 All rights reserved. Unless otherwise specified, no part of this publication may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, ISO's member body in the country of the requester. ISO copyright office Case postale 56: CH-1211Geneva 20 Tel. + 41 22 749 01 11 Fax + 41 22 749 09 47 E-mail [email protected] Web www.iso.org Published in Switzerland ISO/IEC23360-6:2006(E) LinuxStandardBaseCoreSpecificationforPPC643.1 ISO/IEC 23360-6:2006(E) Copyright @2006ISO/IEC This standard includes material that has been provided by the Free Standards Group under the GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.1 published by the Free Software Foundation. Portions of the text are copyrighted by the following parties: :TheRegents of the Universityof California FreeSoftwareFoundation .Ian F.Darwin :Paul Vixie : BSDI (now Wind River) ·AndrewGMorgan : Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler : Massachusetts Institute of Technology These excerpts are being used in accordance with their respective licenses. Linux is the registered trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S. and other countries. UNIX is a registered trademark of The Open Group. LSB is a trademark of the Free Standards Group in the United States and other countries. AMD is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Intel and Itanium are registered trademarks and Intel386 is a trademark of Intel Corporation. PowerPC is a registered trademark and PowerPC Architecture is a trademark of the IBM Corporation. S/390 is a registered trademark of the IBM Corporation. OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. ii ISO/IEC23360-6:2006(E) Contents Foreword vii Introduction. .viii I IntroductoryElements. 1.1 General.. 1.2Module Specific Scope. 2 References... 2.1NormativeReferences 2.2InformativeReferences/Bibliography 3 Requirements.... 3.1Relevant Libraries.. 3.2LSBImplementationConformance .. 3.3LSBApplicationConformance.. 4 Definitions ... 5 Terminology... 10 6DocumentationConventions .12 II Executable and Linking Format (ELF).. .13 7 Introduction... .14 8LowLevelSystemInformation .15 8.1 Machine Interface.. .15 8.2Function Calling Sequence .16 8.3 Traceback Tables. .16 8.4 Process Initialization. .16 8.5CodingExamples 9Object Format.. .18 9.1 Introduction... .18 9.2 ELF Header... .18 9.3 Special Sections.. .18 9.4 TOC... .20 9.5 Symbol Table ... .20 9.6 Relocation... .20 21 10 Program Loading and Dynamic Linking 10.1 Introduction... .21 10.2 Program Loading . .21 10.3 Dynamic Linking... .21 III Base Libraries... .22 11 Libraries.... .23 11.1Program Interpreter/DynamicLinker. .23 11.2 Interfaces for libc. 23 11.3DataDefinitionsforlibo .37 11.4Interfaces forlibm. .49 11.5DataDefinitions forlibm. .54 11.6Interfaces for libpthread .55 11.7Data Definitions forlibpthread. .57 11.8Interfaces for libgcc_s .58 11.9Data Definitions forlibgco .59 11.10 Interface Definitions for libgcc. .59 11.11Interfaces forlibdl .65 11.12DataDefinitionsforlibdl .66 11.13 Interfaces for libcrypt.. .66 IV Utility Libraries.. .67 12 Libraries . ISO/IEC23360-6:2006(E) 12.1 Interfaces for libz... ..68 12.2DataDefinitions for libz... ..68 12..3 Interfaces for libncurses..... ..8 12.4Data Definitions for libncurses.. ..69 12.5 Interfaces for libuti... V PackageFormat and Installation... ...71 13 Software Insta