TL;DRIn the previous chapter I discussed some of the technical limitations of the .a archive of plain object-code (.o) files that is used for static libraries, limitations which are magnified when the linking relies on pkg-config or CMake. In the end, I proposed having a new ELF type (ET_STAT) that will be used to create a new file format for static libraries — Static Bundle Object (.sbo).Two months after the initial publication, the technical white paper about this new format was finalized and ...