Editing Executable and Linkable Format (section)

=== Mobile phones ===

Some operating systems for mobile phones and mobile devices use ELF:
* Symbian OS v9 uses E32Image<ref>''[https://web.archive.org/web/20091213034509/http://wiki.forum.nokia.com/index.php/E32Image Symbian OS executable file format]''</ref> format that is based on the ELF file format;
* Sony Ericsson, for example, the W800i, W610, W300, etc.
* Siemens, the SGOLD and SGOLD2 platforms: from Siemens C65 to S75 and BenQ-Siemens E71/EL71;
* Motorola, for example, the E398, SLVR L7, v360, v3i (and all phone LTE2 which has the patch applied).
* Bada, for example, the Samsung Wave S8500.
* Nokia phones or tablets running the Maemo or the Meego OS, for example, the Nokia N900.
* [[Android (operating system)|Android]] uses ELF {{mono|.so}} (shared object<ref>
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</ref>) libraries for the [[Java Native Interface]].{{citation needed|date=February 2023}} With [[Android Runtime]] (ART), the default since Android 5.0 "Lollipop", all applications are compiled into native ELF binaries on installation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Android formats |url=https://lief-project.github.io/doc/latest/tutorials/10_android_formats.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230216233708/https://lief-project.github.io/doc/latest/tutorials/10_android_formats.html |access-date=17 Jan 2023 |archive-date=16 February 2023 |work=Quarks Lab |last=Thomas |first=Romain}}</ref> It's also possible to use native Linux software from package managers like Termux, or compile them from sources via Clang or GCC, that are available in repositories.

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Some phones can run ELF files through the use of a patch that adds assembly code to the main firmware, which is a feature known as ''ELFPack'' in the underground modding culture. The ELF file format is also used with the [[Atmel AVR]] (8-bit), AVR32<ref>
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and with Texas Instruments MSP430 microcontroller architectures. Some implementations of Open Firmware can also load ELF files, most notably Apple's implementation used in almost all PowerPC machines the company produced.