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I don't think I have ever encountered an a.out binary in many years of using Linux. The default compiler output file is named a.out, but it's actually in ELF fo
by TorKlingberg 8y ago
I don't think I have ever encountered an a.out binary in many years of using Linux. The default compiler output file is named a.out, but it's actually in ELF format.
I have encountered COFF executables, and been part of a COFF->ELF transition on a embedded system, but Linux never supported COFF afaik.
- pkaye 8y agoIn the earlier days the executables were all a.out format. There was a transition year where all the ELF binaries were slowly being converted over to ELF format in the Linux distributions. There was a similar transition when unicode became standard.
- qubex 8y agoI remember that. I was running Slackware at the time and I had an eventful couple of months...