Object File Formats
By Rand Gray and Deepak Mulchandani, May 01, 1997
Object files provide a concise and efficient representation for a compiled application, furnishing all the information needed to represent the state of the entire application at a point in time. Our authors examine object files in general, and explore the structure of the COFF and IEEE695 object file formats in particular.
Dr. Dobb's Journal May 1997: Object File Formats
Object File Formats
By Rand Gray and Deepak Mulchandani
Dr. Dobb's Journal May 1997
<B>(a)</B> 1
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3 #include <stdio.h>
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5 main() <B> (b)</B> Function Name: main(), Arguments: None
6 { Function Begin
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8 int x; Define Local Variable: "x"; Type "integer"
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10 x=5; Assign the variable "x" the value 5
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12 } Function End
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Figure 2: (a) Program main.c; (b) attribute list.
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