This chapter describes the ELF output module which can be
selected with the @option{-Felf} option.

@section Legal

    This module is copyright in 2002-2011 by Frank Wille.

    This archive may be redistributed without modifications and used
    for non-commercial purposes.

    Distributing modified versions and commercial usage needs my written
    consent.

    Certain modules may fall under additional copyrights.

@section Additional options for this version
None. 

@section General

This output module outputs the @code{ELF} (Executable and Linkable Format)
format, which is a portable object file format which works for a variety
of 32- and 64-bit operating systems.

@section Restrictions

The @code{ELF} output format, as implemented in vasm, currently supports
the following architectures:

@itemize @minus

@item PowerPC
@item M68k
@item ARM
@item i386
@item x86_64

@end itemize

The supported relocation types depend on the selected architecture.

@section Known Problems

    Some known problems of this module at the moment:

@itemize @minus

@item None.

@end itemize

@section Error Messages

This module has the following error messages:

@itemize @minus
@item 3002: output module doesn't support cpu <name>
@item 3003: write error
@item 3005: reloc type <m>, size <n>, mask <mask> (symbol <sym> + <offset>) not supported
@item 3006: reloc type <n> not supported
@end itemize
