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History
Overview
Features
Problems
Key facts & relationships
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- Developed by
- AT&T Corporation
- Extended to
- XCOFF, ECOFF, Portable Executable, Executable and Linkable Format
- Internet media type
- application/x-coff, application/x-coffexec
- Magic number
- 4C 01 for i386 · 64 86 for AMD64 · 00 02 for Itanium
- Type of format
- Binary, executable, object, shared libraries
Topics to explore
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Overview
- Format File format
- Executable
- Object code
- Shared library Shared libraries
- Computer files Computer file
- Unix
- Unix System V
- A.out
- XCOFF
- ECOFF
- ELF Executable and Linkable Format
- SVR4 UNIX System V
- Unix-like
- Microsoft Windows
- Portable Executable
- UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface
History
- A.out A.out (file format)
- Shared libraries Library (computing)
- AT&T
- AT&T's AT&T Computer Systems
- VAX
- 32-bit 32-bit computing
- 3B20 3B series computers
- Symbolic debugging
- Programming languages Programming language
- C++
- Instruction set architectures Instruction set architecture
- IBM
- AIX operating system
- DEC Digital Equipment Corporation
- SGI Silicon Graphics
- SysV
- Embedded systems Embedded system
- Microsoft
- Windows NT
- Object files Object file
Features
- String String (computer science)
- Tracing Tracing (software)
- Symbol table
- Offset Offset (computer science)
- Virtual address
- Base address
Problems
- Unix epoch
- UTC Coordinated Universal Time
- Year 2038 problem
Advanced semantic analysis
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COFF
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Important terminology
format file object executable used unix address number information symbol files systems portable xcoff ecoff sections table loaded unix-like microsoft
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| COFF | Developed by | AT&T Corporation | 1.00 | infobox |
| COFF | Extended to | XCOFF, ECOFF, Portable Executable, Executable and Linkable Format | 1.00 | infobox |
| COFF | Filename extension | .mw-parser-output .monospaced{font-family:monospace,monospace} none, .o, .obj, .lib | 1.00 | infobox |
| COFF | Internet media type | application/x-coff, application/x-coffexec | 1.00 | infobox |
| COFF | Magic number | 4C 01 for i386 | 1.00 | infobox |
| COFF | Magic number | 64 86 for AMD64 | 1.00 | infobox |
| COFF | Magic number | 00 02 for Itanium | 1.00 | infobox |
| COFF | Type of format | Binary, executable, object, shared libraries | 1.00 | infobox |
| XCOFF | instance of | and formed the basis for extended specifications | 0.80 | text |
| ECOFF | instance of | and formed the basis for extended specifications | 0.80 | text |
| before being largely replaced by ELF | instance of | and formed the basis for extended specifications | 0.80 | text |
| introduced with SVR4 | instance of | and formed the basis for extended specifications | 0.80 | text |
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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