Coff File Structure - Texas Instruments TMS320C54x User Manual

COFF File Structure

A.1 COFF File Structure
A.1.1 Overall Object File Structure
Figure A–1. COFF File Structure
A-2
The elements of a COFF object file describe the file's sections and symbolic
debugging information. These elements are:
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A file header
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Optional header information
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A table of section headers
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Raw data for each initialized section
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Relocation information for each initialized section
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Line-number entries for each initialized section
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A symbol table
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A string table
The assembler and linker produce object files with the same COFF structure;
however, a program that is linked for the final time does not usually contain
relocation entries. Figure A–1 illustrates the overall object file structure.
file header
optional file header
section 1 header
section n header
section 1
raw data
section n
raw data
section 1
relocation information
section n
relocation information
section 1
line numbers
section n
line numbers
symbol table
string table
section headers
raw data
(executable code
and initialized data)
relocation
information
line-number
entries