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==Overview==
The COFF file format was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for a.out, adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.

Nowadays, remnants of COFF can be found almost exclusively in the [[EXE|PE-EXE format]] which is based on COFF

==References==
* Texas Instruments has a nice [http://www.ti.com/lit/an/spraao8/spraao8.pdf overview] of the COFF format
* Since DJGPP uses a variant of COFF , they also have a summary available [http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/coff/ here]

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 The '''Common Object File Format''' ('''COFF''') is a format used for object code and executables. It was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for [[a.out]], adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format. The COFF format has many incompatible extensions.

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-==Overview==
+The [[Portable Executable]] format is based on COFF. COFF is also the native object format of the DJGPP toolchain; executables produced by it are COFF files with an [[MZ]] stub prepended.
-'''COFF''' (Common Object File Format) was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for [[a.out]], adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.
-−
-Nowadays, remnants of COFF can be found almost exclusively in the [[PE|PE-EXE format]], which is based on COFF.
 ==References==
 * Texas Instruments has a nice [http://www.ti.com/lit/an/spraao8/spraao8.pdf overview] of the COFF format
-* Since DJGPP uses a variant of COFF , they also have a summary available [http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/coff/ here]
+* Since DJGPP uses a variant of COFF, they also have a summary available [http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/coff/ here]

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+}}
-| >
-|[[Executables]]
-| >
-|[[COFF]]
-|}
 ==Overview==

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 ==Overview==
-''COFF'' (Common Object File Format) was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for a.out, adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.
+'''COFF''' (Common Object File Format) was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for a.out, adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.
 Nowadays, remnants of COFF can be found almost exclusively in the [[EXE|PE-EXE format]] which is based on COFF

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-| Common Object File Format (COFF)
+|[[COFF]]
 |}
 ==Overview==
-The COFF file format was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for a.out, adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.
+''COFF'' (Common Object File Format) was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for a.out, adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.
 Nowadays, remnants of COFF can be found almost exclusively in the [[EXE|PE-EXE format]] which is based on COFF

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	==Overview==		==Overview==
	The COFF file format was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for a.out, adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.		The COFF file format was originally developed for UNIX System V by AT&T. It was intended as a replacement for a.out, adding features like shared libraries and relocation records, but it was shortly after replaced by the [[ELF]] format.