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Application Binary Interface for the Arm® Architecture

This is the official place for the latest documents of the Application Binary Interface for the Arm® Architecture, both for source files and officially released documents.

Transitioning the ABI specs

Currently we are in a transition period while we convert all the ABI specifications to this new open-source format. One by one, once the individual documents have been converted, they will appear here, and they will be included in future releases here on Github.

ABI documents that haven't been converted yet can be found on the Arm-hosted developer site.

See the Document locations section below for links to the individual documents, both here on Github and their last release on developer.arm.com.

Releases

The latest ABI releases are being made available only here on Github: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/releases

For the last specifications released on developer.arm.com, see the links to the individual documents in the Document locations section below.

Defect reports

Please report defects in or enhancements to the specifications in this folder to the issue tracker page on GitHub.

For reporting defects or enhancements to documents that currenlty are not yet included in this repo and are thus only hosted on developer.arm.com, please send an email to arm.eabi@arm.com.

Document locations

See the below tables for the status of the various ABI specifications. A dash represents that the document isn't available either on Github or on the Arm-hosted developer site.

ABI for the Arm 32-bit Architecture

specification latest on Github last on developer site
Application Binary Interface for the Arm architecture introduction - 2019Q4
Procedure Call Standard for the Arm Architecture aapcs32 2020Q2
ELF for the Arm Architecture aaelf32 2019Q1
DWARF for the Arm Architecture aadwarf32 2018Q4
Base Platform ABI for the Arm Architecture - 2018Q4
C++ ABI for the Arm Architecture cppabi32 2019Q4
Exception Handling ABI for the Arm Architecture ehabi32 2018Q4
Run-time ABI for the Arm Architecture rtabi32 2018Q4
C Library for the Arm Architecture clibabi32 2018Q4
Support for Debugging Overlaid Programs - 2018Q4
Addenda to, and Errata in, the ABI for the ARM Architecture addenda32 2019Q1
ABI Advisory Note - SP 8-byte alignment - 2018Q4

ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture

specification latest on Github last on developer site
Procedure Call Standard for the Arm 64-bit Architecture aapcs64 2018Q4
ELF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture aaelf64 2020Q2
DWARF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture aadwarf64 2020Q2
C++ ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture - 2020Q2
Vector Function ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture vfabia64 2019Q2

ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture with SVE support

specification latest on Github last on developer site
Procedure Call Standard for the Arm 64-bit Architecture with SVE support content merged with aapcs64 2019Q2
DWARF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture with SVE support content merged with aadwarf64 SVEdwf 00bet1
Vector Function ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture (identical to document in ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture section) vfabia64 2019Q2

PAuth ABI Extension

specification latest on Github last on developer site
PAuth ABI Extension to ELF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture pauthabielf64 -

Morello Extension

specification latest on Github last on developer site
Morello Extension to the Procedure Call Standard for the Arm 64-bit Architecture aapcs64-morello 2020Q3
Morello Extension to ELF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture aaelf64-morello 2020Q3
Morello Extension to DWARF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture aadwarf64-morello 2020Q3

Miscellaneous material

specification latest on Github last on developer site
Semihosting for AArch32 and AArch64 semihosting 2019Q4