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On 08/26/2010 10:54 AM, Markus Duft wrote: |
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> On 08/26/2010 08:42 AM, Christopher Warrington wrote: |
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>> "Al" <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> @ 2010-8-25 3:25 AM: |
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>>> Yes, Cygwin is not ELF but COFF. |
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>> I've almost always heard Windows executables called Portable Executables |
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>> (PEs) [1]. Though, according to the article, PEs are an evolution of COFFs. |
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> Windows uses (that's the _real_ name ;)) PE/COFF. this means, PE |
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> (personal executable) is the "container" (dll, exe), but the objects are |
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> COFF (common object file format). |
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hah - as haubi pointed out correctly, it's Portable Executable, of |
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course, not Personal Executable - fail :] |
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markus |
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>> Looking at a Cygwin binary (/usr/sbin/httpd2.exe from [2]), I do see the the |
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>> PE magic number [3], 0x4D 0x5A ("MZ"), not what appears to be the COFF magic |
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>> numbers [4], 0x4C 0x01. |
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> yeah, right, but the objects that make up the binary all had the COFF |
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> magic. the linker then puts those together and outputs a PE binary, |
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> containing all the sections from each COFF object. |
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> markus |
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>> [1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Executable> |
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>> [2] |
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>> <http://cygwin.iphoneapps4free.org/release/apache2/apache2-2.2.6-1.tar.bz2> |
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>> [3] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_number_(programming)> |
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>> [4] <http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/coff/filhdr.html> |
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