[ECOS] on "a.out,COFF,ELF"targets

[Gary Thomas]

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 20:01, zhlg_shuhan wrote:
> Hi,all.
>   I met some strange name in GNU assembler doc,that's "a.out target","COFF target",and "ELF target".what are they?
> features and examples?
>

They are different file formats for binary executable images, like
an eCos program.  a.out and COFF are quite old and rarely used any
more.  ELF is the current format and is what is used by eCos.

note: eCos cannot [currently] be built except using ELF tools.


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