COFF File Format Spec
Ian Lance Taylor
ian@airs.com
Sat Mar 16 23:15:00 GMT 2002
"Harshad R Joglekar" <harshad.joglekar@wipro.com> writes:
> I have been trying to find a spec on the COFF file format through Google,
> but could not find a conclusive link.
> There is a DJGPP-COFF standard, but I am not sure if this is THE COFF spec.
>
> Is COFF an open standard? Can someone please post a link?
I've never seen an online version of the COFF spec. COFF was
originally defined in System V Release 3. If you can find an old copy
of the programmer's reference manual, I think there is a description
in there. Or there was an O'Reilly book on COFF; it's long out of
print, but you might be able to find a copy for sale somewhere.
COFF wasn't particularly well defined. It never had a spec of the
quality of the ELF spec. In particular, relocations were never
particularly well defined.
Ian
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