From: "John T. Williams" <jowillia@vt.edu>
To: lcp <lcp@adigit.com.tw>
Cc: linux-config@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: what's the difference between a.out and ELF format
Date: 24 Dec 2003 08:41:26 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1072273188.6878.8.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000101c3c9cc$7a9bfb60$1600a8c0@lcp>
If you are asking about the vague explanation, then a.out is an older
format for storing executable binary information, and elf is the newer
better, in that is supports oop more and run time linking and all sorts
of nifty things, way of doing it. If you want more information then
that I suggest you read the white-sheets for both a.out and for elf,
which give full details.
a.out white-sheet
http://nscp.upenn.edu/aix4.3html/files/aixfiles/XCOFF.htm
elf white-sheet
http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~haungs/paper/node11.html
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 22:17, lcp wrote:
> Could anybody here tell me about the difference between a.out and ELF
> core format?
> Thanks in advance.
>
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2003-12-24 3:17 what's the difference between a.out and ELF format lcp
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