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Re: elf or ecoff
- To: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Subject: Re: elf or ecoff
- From: Jeff Sturm <jeff dot sturm at appnet dot com>
- Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 14:35:57 -0500
- CC: Darrell Bellert <dbellert at boulder dot qms dot com>, gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: Commerce One
- References: <3A54C0F1.809ED05F@boulder.qms.com> <ork88brulf.fsf@guarana.lsd.ic.unicamp.br>
- Reply-To: jeff dot sturm at commerceone dot com
Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>
> On Jan 4, 2001, Darrell Bellert <dbellert@boulder.qms.com> wrote:
>
> > Can someone please explain the difference between an elf target and an
> > ecoff target, or point me to a site where this is explained?
>
> Basically, ELF is a nice binary format, whereas ECOFF is an extension
> of COFF, which is not as nice. If you have the option, I'd recommend
> ELF.
ELF is much more modern and flexible, that is. You can argue whether PIC is
nice or not...
I found John Levine's "Linkers & Loaders" a great text for this sort of stuff.
I don't know any online resources, however.
--
Jeff Sturm
jeff.sturm@commerceone.com