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Hi,
I am reading about COFF file formats, which is commonly used to create an executable file format (it has some variants also).
While reading, I came across the relocation section of the format.
How is this relocation section used to create an executable file.
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I've peen looking at the PE/COFF format and it seems to be missing a few things about extensions to the format. Specifically, I'm trying to learn about ECOFF and ANON objects. from what I can tell, those're just two names for the same thing, which is also known as a BIGOBJ. The BIGOBJ allows…
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Table of Contents
Introduction
PE file format and COFF header
COFF file header
BaseCoffReader
Byte4ByteCoffReader
UnsafeCoffReader
ManagedCoffReader
Conclusion
History
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Introduction
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I'm seeing what I think is strange behaviour from object files output by the Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 tools. The file utility tells me:
asmfile.obj: 80386 COFF executable not stripped - version 30821
For objects created by the assembler, but for objects coming from C files, I get just:
cfile…
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I already asked a similar question, "PE Header requirements", but I'm not really satisfied with it's answer.
I am building an assembler/linker, in Java SE 1.6. I have read about 5 different documentations/specifications about the PE/COFF header and file format, but I'm stuck at a problem:
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