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The code is architecture-independent. The article handily links to it: https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v3.18/source/fs/binfmt_elf....

So regardless of what architecture you're on and how long its platform capability description is, it goes on the stack. This also allows for for future expansion without forever constraining the string to be 64 bits.



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