Re: [Mingw-users] The difference between pe and pei ?

[Dongsheng S. <don...@gm...>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:39 PM, Kai Tietz <kti...@go...> wrote:
>
> 2012/10/12 Dieter Verfaillie <di...@op...>:
> > On 2012-10-12 05:51, Dongsheng Song wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> What's the difference between pe and pei ?
> >
> > This nugget of info might be useful. Start reading from line 40:
> > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/bfd/libpei.h?annotate=1.25&cvsroot=src
> >
> > mvg,
> > Dieter
>
> Hmm, not sure if that description is very understandable.  pe-coff is
> the PECOFF object file format, and pei-coff is the PECOFF IMAGE
> format.  One difference is that within object-files long sections
> names are allowed, but in final-image they are not (yes, they get
> emulated, but they aren't supported by spec).
>
> Regards,
> Kai
>

In practice, MinGW64 gcc only generate pe-i386 and pe-x86-64 format
exe/dll files ?

Regards,
Dongsheng