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From: bothner@PESCADERO.STANFORD.EDU
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: a.out format replacement
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Date: 15 May 88 00:39:43 GMT
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Anyone designing a new binary file format to replace a.out
should know about MUFOM. This was a proposed standard
developed by an IEEE group.

IEEE P695 working group: The Microprocessor Universal Format
for Object Modules - Proposed standard
IEEE Micro August 1983, 3(4)48-66

I don't know if it ever went anywhere, but it had some
rather powerful features. If someone were to design a new
standard, this would be a good place to start.

	--Per Bothner
bothner@pescadero.stanford.edu  ...!{decwrl,uunet}!polya.stanford.edu!bothner
Computer Science Dept., Stanford University, Stanford CA 94305