From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "John T. Williams" Subject: Re: what's the difference between a.out and ELF format Date: 24 Dec 2003 08:41:26 -0500 Sender: linux-config-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1072273188.6878.8.camel@localhost> References: <000101c3c9cc$7a9bfb60$1600a8c0@lcp> Reply-To: jtwilliams@vt.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <000101c3c9cc$7a9bfb60$1600a8c0@lcp> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: lcp Cc: linux-config@vger.kernel.org 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. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-config" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html