Elf vs Coff

[Aaron J. Grier]

On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:40:56PM -0700, Langerholc, Larry wrote:
> How do you know if a Gnu based compiler is using elf or coff format?

aaron:~$ ar
Usage: ar [-]{dmpqrtx}[abcilosSuvV] [member-name] archive-file file...
       ar -M [<mri-script]
ar: supported targets: elf32-i386 a.out-i386-bsd coff-i386 a.out-i386-freebsd a.out-i386-netbsd netbsd-core srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex

aaron:/usr/local/cross/bin$ ./m68k-coff-ar 
Usage: ./m68k-coff-ar [-]{dmpqrtx}[abcilosSuvV] [member-name] archive-file file...
       ./m68k-coff-ar -M [<mri-script]
./m68k-coff-ar: supported targets: coff-m68k versados ieee srec symbolsrec tekhex binary ihex

does that answer your question?  :)

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