Doubt about the COFF format.

[isaisa]

Hi all,
I was reading the MSDN documentation for VC++ debugger. I came across some options as "COFF" format. I am not aware about these format as to what these formats used for.
Kindly let me know the concept or the site where i will get documentation about the same.

Thanks in advance.
Sanjay

 

[B00gyeMan]

See this

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/hwdev/hardware/pecoff.mspx

and you can download the Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification (self-extracting zipped version of the .DOC file) here

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/hwdev3/1.0/wxp/en-us/pecoffw.exe