Re: object/load module formats

brent@jade.ssd.csd.harris.com (Brent Benson)
Sun, 20 Feb 1994 04:23:50 GMT

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From: brent@jade.ssd.csd.harris.com (Brent Benson)
Keywords: linker
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 94-02-094
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 04:23:50 GMT

John (the comp.compilers moderator) writes:
# ... a correspondent pointed
# out that AIX still uses a version of COFF, so it's far from dead. -John]


I wouldn't exactly call XCOFF a version of COFF. I would probably call it
an extension of COFF (hence the `X'?). In any case, XCOFF is also the
object file format specified by the PowerOPEN ABI (which may or may not
extend its lifetime :-).


Brent Benson
Harris Computer Systems
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