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From: spw2562@ritcv.UUCP (Fishhook)
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Subject: Re: magic numbers? (teach me, please)
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Date: Wed, 4-Dec-85 09:56:34 EST
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In article <3044@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes:
>                                                       does anybody know why
>there seem to be four(!) different magic numbers for 68000-family
>executables?
>
>	Guy Harris
There are four(!8-) distinct forms of executables for the M68000 family
of processors.  I took a course last year in systems programming, and one
off the projects was a primitive object module editor.  We had to be able
to recognize the four formats by the magic number, and determine where
the text and data areas were.  It's been a while, so I don't exactly remember
the formats, but I can look 'em up if you're really interested.


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