Executables
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* [[COFF]] — The Common Object File Format, an executable format originally designed for use in UNIX System V | * [[COFF]] — The Common Object File Format, an executable format originally designed for use in UNIX System V | ||
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* [[EXE]] — The original DOS executable format, with variants like NE (New Executable), PE (Portable Executable, actually a [[COFF]] variant), LX (Linear Executable) and others, as used in Microsoft MS-DOS and MS Windows (and some other operating systems like SkyOS) | * [[EXE]] — The original DOS executable format, with variants like NE (New Executable), PE (Portable Executable, actually a [[COFF]] variant), LX (Linear Executable) and others, as used in Microsoft MS-DOS and MS Windows (and some other operating systems like SkyOS) | ||
* [[ELF]] | * [[ELF]] | ||
Revision as of 23:44, 3 December 2012
Container formats for machine executable code. These often define different sections to be loaded into memory. Some formats may be compatible with different CPU architectures.
- a.out
- COFF — The Common Object File Format, an executable format originally designed for use in UNIX System V
- Compressed executable (.com) — DOS executable
- EXE — The original DOS executable format, with variants like NE (New Executable), PE (Portable Executable, actually a COFF variant), LX (Linear Executable) and others, as used in Microsoft MS-DOS and MS Windows (and some other operating systems like SkyOS)
- ELF
- Intel HEX
See also Source code for code in a higher-level programming language that needs to be compiled, assembled, or interpreted.
