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- From: dstewart+@cs.cmu.edu (David B Stewart)
- Subject: Question on COFF file format
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- Organization: The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 16:16:30 GMT
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- I am writing a program which must read in an i860 COFF file.
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- Is there any way of knowing the size of the string table before
- the table is read in?
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- The header information gives the sizes of everything else, but not
- for the string table. However, to be able to allocate memory to
- store the string table, I have to know its size, but that doesn't
- seem to be available.
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- If the size isn't available, is there a customary way of reading
- the string table, as used by loaders which must read the COFF file?
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- Please respond via email.
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- Thanks a whole bunch!
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- ~dave
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