Re: Help my understanding of compiled code

ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
16 Nov 1999 23:42:04 -0500

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From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Nov 1999 23:42:04 -0500
Organization: Department of Mathematics, The Ohio State University
References: 99-11-059
Keywords: code

> [Strings are strings, the object version is the same as the source version
> except for the way they're delimited. Everything else is translated to
> forms the hardware can understand, e.g., machine instructions for code,
> binary formats of numbers. My "Linkers and Loaders" has a fairly long
> (maybe too long) discussion of both machine architecture and object file
> formats. -John]


This depends. Some OS'es program loaders understand compressed page
images (IIRC OS/2's one understands LZW-per-page), which will skew any
tool which is not expecting this.


Ilya

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