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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 

Contents of File Header
		Magic Number 	                : 808
		Number of Sections 	            : 2
		Time of File Creation 	        : Mon Jul 24 14:24:37 1995
		Number of Symbol Table Entries 	: 9
		Symbol Table Entry #1 = t.asm
		Symbol Table Entry #2 = .bss
		Symbol Table Entry #3 = 
		Symbol Table Entry #4 = .text
		Symbol Table Entry #5 = 
		Symbol Table Entry #6 = var1
		Symbol Table Entry #7 = start
		Symbol Table Entry #8 = loop
		Symbol Table Entry #9 = equal

Figure 4: Example print utility for COFF object files.

Copyright © 1997, Dr. Dobb's Journal



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