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Re: Where can I get a good a.out documentation?
- From: Eric Christopher <echristo at redhat dot com>
- To: Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf at greatcn dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 01:37:18 -0800
- Subject: Re: Where can I get a good a.out documentation?
- References: <4046F4E7.60007@greatcn.org>
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 01:20, Coywolf Qi Hunt wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm very new here. Where can I get a good a.out documentation? I mean
> the a.out format in linux. I guess it's realted to COFF.
Few points:
a) modern linux uses elf. has for years.
b) look for svr4 stuff using google for elf. probably a caldera.com
address iirc.
c) a.out and coff (svr3) are only loosely related.
d) good god. don't use a.out for anything. don't use coff either.
-eric
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Eric Christopher <echristo@redhat.com>