A.1.3 Impact Of Switching Operating Systems - Texas Instruments TMS320C54x User Manual

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COFF File Structure

A.1.3 Impact of Switching Operating Systems

The 'C54x COFF files are recognized by all operating system versions of the

development tools. When you switch from one operating system to another,

only the file header information in the COFF files needs to be byte swapped.

The raw data in the COFF files does not need any changes.

The 'C54x development tools can detect the difference in the file headers and

automatically compensate for it. This is true if using only 'C54x development

To tell the difference between COFF files, you can look at the magic number

in the optional file header. Bytes 0 and 1 contain the magic number. For the

DOS operating system, the magic number is 801h.

operating systems, the magic number is 108h. For the

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