Re: [Mingw-users] Re: Binary formats for .o and .a files?

[Chris T. <cdt...@co...>]

Ranjit Mathew wrote:
>>Search for this document: PECOFF60.pdf
>     http://www.microsoft.com/hwdev/hardware/PECOFF.asp

Already know about PE COFF.  I'm looking for the file formats for
.o and .a files.  There might possibly be internal pe structures
but these files themselves are not recognizable as PE COFF.

The .a library file in particulat begins with the text
"!<arch>".