On Mar 23, 2012, at 8:21 AM, Allen Copeland wrote:
> what format does Linux (which I've never used) use for its executable images,
Linux uses ELF for shared libraries and executables:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executable_and_Linkable_Format
Mac OS X uses Mach-O:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach-O
> and what does Mono, on Linux, use to handle managed image loading?
The `mono` binary and `libmono-2.0.so` shared library are used to read PE
assemblies. See e.g. mono/mono/metadata/image.c!mono_image_open_full() for
details.
https://github.com/mono/mono/blob/master/mono/metadata/image.c#L1212
- Jon
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