>what's the advantage of using elf as opposed to aout?
Depends whether you are asking from the perspective of a user or a developer.
For a developer, ELF is better because it's a more flexible binary format. It
is easy to do things that were difficult with a.out, like shared libraries and
binaries with many sections. It's also a more popular format and this means
the tools are more widely used and less buggy.
For a user, ELF is better purely because it's what all the developers use and
so what the software is written for.
In the specific case of ARM GNU/Linux, ELF is better for users because it no
longer suffers from a 12MB limit on the amount of memory that dynamic-linked
programs can use.
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