[benj111]

I'd agree it's not standards compliant. But if it's accepted as an ELF by Linux, in what way is it not an ELF?

Or to flip it round. If Linux accepts something as an ELF that isn't, then it isn't an ELF loader.

Would you describe a web browser that doesn't score 100% on a rendering test as not a browser?

[auguzanellato]

The analogy would be more like a browser that somehow manages to render utterly broken HTML (yes, they actually do)