Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/02/23/14:26:51
"Pieter van Ginkel" <pginkel AT westbrabant DOT net> wrote:
> I think I'm getting mad!!!!
>
> I'm reading all these things about COFF, but what the hell is it. Can
> anybode send me a document (something like 100 pages, you know!!!) to me so
> I can find out that the hell COFF really is???
>
:-)))))
Is just the output format of ld. DJGPP is configured to generate COFF binaries,
you can find more info about the format in the DJ's page
(http://www.delorie.com). Is simply an old UNIX format for executables. DJGPP
uses a loader (2Kb stub) to load the COFF file in memory and run the code.
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