Understanding and Using COFF (Nutshell Handbooks)

By Gintaras R. Gircys

COFF, Common Object File Format, is the formal definition for the structure of machine code files in the UNIX System V.3 environment. All machine-code files--fully linked executables, compiled applications, or system libraries--are COFF files. There is hardly a system-related task that does not require some knowledge of COFF, from understanding assembly source to implementing a proprietary system enhancement. This handbook explains the COFF data structure and its manipulation.Contents include: Basics of COFF. Assembly code relocation process. COFF file headers. Relocation structures. Linking. The COFF system in UNIX. Magic numbers. The COFF symbolic debug system.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937175315
• ISBN13: 9780937175316
• Release Date: November 1988
• Publisher: O'Reilly Media
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.5"