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clean dos extender executable format (Developers)

posted by DosWorld, 09.01.2023, 00:24

> My understanding is that kerravon's actual a.out will be a 32-bit protected
> mode program. (So any 16-bit code will only be used to start up a 32-bit
> environment for the a.out to run in.)

I am talk from historic point of view.
Initially, aout was a 16-bit file format (like Unix System V age) and was extended to 32-bit later. And more later, was split to Linux-aout and BSD-aout.

So, all 3 type of aout have no segment relocations. BSD-aout have more flexible relocation format (than in other aout). BSD-aout is good for DPMI, but for 16-bit... not so good. Not a "silver bullet". IMHO.

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• clean dos extender executable format - kerravon, 07.01.2023, 03:56
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  • clean dos extender executable format - DosWorld, 08.01.2023, 15:51
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            • clean dos extender executable format - kerravon, 09.01.2023, 02:32
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