[llvm-commits] MCSectionCOFF patch

[Nathan Jeffords]

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From: "Peter S. Housel" <housel at acm.org>
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 3:59 PM
To: "'Sandeep Patel'" <deeppatel1987 at gmail.com>; "'Chris Lattner'" 
<clattner at apple.com>
Cc: "'Nathan Jeffords'" <blunted2night at gmail.com>; 
<llvm-commits at cs.uiuc.edu>
Subject: RE: [llvm-commits] MCSectionCOFF patch

> Sandeep Patel <deeppatel1987 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't it be PECOFF.h? Variants of this format are used for non-x86
>> targets as well as some embedded OSes that may not be called Windows.
>
> PECOFF is the executable format on Windows; it essentially has a PE header
> followed by a COFF header. Object files (as opposed to executable files) 
> are
> pretty much the same COFF as is found elsewhere.
>
> -Peter-
>
>
>

I am only trying to target windows version right now, but I don't know what 
the future may hold.