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

[Kai T. <kti...@go...>]

2012/10/12 Dongsheng Song <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

Huh?  What the heck it has to do with MinGW64?  pe-* is object-file
format, pei-* is image-file format.  And this is true for all flavors
of coff using binutils.

Regards,
Kai