00R0DHESI%bsu.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Rahul Dhesi) (09/27/86)
Roy Carlson (mesage identification information stripped as always by our brain-damaged VAX/VMS mail utility) asked: > COFF (Common Object File Format) was documented in Chapter 9 of the > Transition Aids manual that was published at the time of introduction > of System V. Is it described in the current System V documentation? The System V Release 2 Programmer's Manual dated October 1985 that we received with System V Release 2.1 for the AT&T 3B2 documents the format of a.out files under the manual page A.OUT(4). This file has what the manual calls "a common object format". Another sentence says, "The output file of the assembler as(1), also follows the common object file format of the a.out file...." The title of the manual page and the table of contents don't mention "common object file" but the permuted index does. More detailed information about the first 20 bytes of a common object file is under the manual page FILEHDR(4). See also LDFCN(4) for a description of a set of "common object file access routines" which are "a collection of functions for reading common object files and archives containing common object files." seismo!csnet-relay.ARPA!bsu!dhesi dhesi%bsu@csnet-relay.ARPA <Rahul Dhesi>