Another question for a test/research
2006-09-21 11:29:24 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
Why don't you Google some different formats to get an idea of the differences...? Try the following formats:
ELF
EXE
Win-32 PE
Mach-O
COM
This should get you moving in the right direction in finding the differences...which are substantial between some of these.
2006-09-21 11:53:39 · answer #1 · answered by Christina 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only thing I remember (from my old DOS days) is that .EXE files load at any address and are re-locateable anywhere in memory (they contain relocation maps in their header) and .COM files always load at address 0100H within the current code segment. This is from the old days when the 8086 processor was used in PCs - it could only access four 64K segments at a time, unlike the modern day Pentiums that have a flat terabyte address space.
2006-09-21 18:41:33 · answer #2 · answered by Timbo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋