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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.

Releases

The latest ABI releases are being made available only here on Github: https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/releases and are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License + grant of Patent License.

If there is no entry in the change history table for a release, there are no changes to the content of the document for that release.

Previous versions of the documents were released under a proprietary license on developer.arm.com. These are now hosted in this repo, and are to be found under the legacy documents folder. They follow the same folder naming scheme as the main document folders.

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 tables below for the status of the various ABI specifications. A dash represents that the document isn't available either as a Github release or as a legacy release.

ABI for the Arm 32-bit Architecture

specification latest last legacy release
Application Binary Interface for the Arm architecture introduction bsabi32 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 bpabi32 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 dbgovl32 2018Q4
Addenda to, and Errata in, the ABI for the ARM Architecture addenda32 2019Q1
ABI Advisory Note - SP 8-byte alignment advnote132 2018Q4

ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture

specification latest last legacy release
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 cppabi64 2020Q2
Vector Function ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture vfabia64 2019Q2

ABI for the Arm 64-bit Architecture with SVE support

specification latest last legacy release
Procedure Call Standard for the Arm 64-bit Architecture with SVE support content merged with aapcs64 SVEpcs 00bet1
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 last legacy document
PAuth ABI Extension to ELF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture pauthabielf64 -

Memtag ABI Extension

specification latest on Github last on developer site
Memtag ABI Extension to ELF for the Arm 64-bit Architecture memtagabielf64 -

Morello Extension

specification latest last legacy release
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 last legacy release
Semihosting for AArch32 and AArch64 semihosting 2019Q4

Contributions

Please find contribution guidelines in https://github.com/ARM-software/abi-aa/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md.

License

All the open-source ABI documents are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License + grant of Patent License.

For more information on licensing in this repository, see the license file: LICENSE.