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On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 9:15 AM Peng Yu via Libc-help
<libc-help@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> That is a book. By definition, a book will not be complete since a
> book is not written for completeness?
>
> For the best reference (as "reference" may have muliple meanings maybe
> I should use the word "spec" to avoid ambiguity), I found the
> following two documents. One is for 32-bit, the other is for 64-bit.
> Are they the most current ones? Other there any other documents that
> cover the things missed by them?

For a spec, see Dreeper's DSO HowTo at
https://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf.

Jeff