How to load and execute COFF file

[Bill Gatliff]

Toralf:


If the target runs gdbstubs, then you could download and launch the COFF 
file with gdb.

b.g.


Toralf Lund wrote:

> I think I mentioned this earlier, but another question that will be 
> coming up, is how to load and execute a (m68k) COFF file without an 
> OS. With the OS-9 module format that I am used to, I would just load 
> the module at specific address, extract an "execution offset" from the 
> module header and add it to the load address, and jump to to the 
> resulting address. I imagine that with COFF (or ELF, which is of 
> course an alternative, too), it will be slightly more complex. Any 
> information on how to do it would be appreciated.
>
> - Toralf
>
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