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microcolonel on March 3, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What is “the stack”?

Bit of a nitpick, but ELF binaries are not used "only in Linux". OS X (Mach) and Windows (PE) are really quite exceptional here.

System V R4, HP-UX, NetBSD, Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenVMS, QNX, Syllable, MINIX, BeOS/Haiku, RISC OS, GP2X, Dreamcast, Gamecube, PSX, PS2, PS3 (maybe NetBSD or FreeBSD ish), PS4(based on FreeBSD), AmigaOS 4, Morph OS, AROS, Open Firmware, and probably a whole bunch of other systems use ELF binaries.

pjmlp on March 3, 2016 [–]

I think you can had existing mainframe OSes to the exceptions list.

wglb on March 3, 2016 | [–]

I would have thought so, but this https://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/... suggest maybe otherwise.

pjmlp on March 3, 2016 | | [–]

So it seems, thanks for the hint.

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