computing, the Executable and Linkable Format (ELF, formerly named Extensible Linking Format) is a common standard file format for executable files, object...

The Portable Executable (PE) format is a file format for executables, object code, DLLs and others used in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Windows operating...

In computer science, executable code, an executable file, or an executable program, sometimes simply referred to as an executable or binary, causes a computer...

is a comparison of binary executable file formats which, once loaded by a suitable executable loader, can be directly executed by the CPU rather than being...

developers of MS-DOS. The MZ DOS executable file is newer than the COM executable format and differs from it. The DOS executable header contains relocation...

file formats for DLLs are the same as for Windows EXE files – that is, Portable Executable (PE) for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, and New Executable (NE)...

addition to being executable (adjective) such a file is often called an executable (noun) which is sometimes abbreviated as EXE. The file format of an EXE file...

into the header of an executable (or another shared library). This RPATH header value (so named in the Executable and Linkable Format header standards) may...

debugging data format. DWARF was originally designed along with Executable and Linkable Format (ELF), although it is independent of object file formats. The name...

concept now includes other forms of executable code including classes and non-executable data including images and text. It can also refer to a collection...