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> >That may have been the original intent of the ELF spec.  But on GNU systems
> >this field has been coopted for purposes that are specific only to the GNU
> >dynamic linker (and linker), not to any machine or operating system.
> 
> Can you point me at any docs or code for that, please? 

Search around for ELFOSABI_GNU (previously called ELFOSABI_LINUX)
in libc and binutils.