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Re: Why objdump can recognize the PE file
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
- To: "mobile.parmenides" <mobile dot parmenides at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "binutils" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 20:54:22 -0800
- Subject: Re: Why objdump can recognize the PE file
- References: <200812270930098439827@gmail.com>
"mobile.parmenides" <mobile.parmenides@gmail.com> writes:
> Within cygwin, the binutil of objdump is able to recognize PE format
> file. But, objdump is ported from linux, why it can do like this?
> Futhermore, does it mean that objdump can recognize any type of
> executable file? just curiostioy.
objdump can recognize a wide range of object file formats. Read the
friendly manual. Note that although objdump fully supports GNU/Linux,
it was not ported from GNU/Linux. objdump was written before the
Linux kernel.
Ian