I was just curious, besides the APIs and DLLs, etc, what is the difference between C++ compiled in windows, and C++ compiled in linux? Is it just the OS interrupts used in the machine code or what?
winrawr 9 Junior Poster
Salem 5,138 Posting Sage
Add executable file formats to the list as well.
winrawr 9 Junior Poster
so runtime libraries, machine code interrupts and executable file format?
Like header-bits-sort of thing?
hmm... can you link me to somewhere that explains the file formats?
if not...I'll google it...just...it's like 2:30 am right now.
jbennet 1,618 Most Valuable Poster Team Colleague Featured Poster
Add executable file formats to the list as well.
yep, if i remembe rrightly, one uses a.out and one uses ELF or something
Ancient Dragon 5,243 Achieved Level 70 Team Colleague Featured Poster
Here is a list of file formats -- there might be more, I don't know. I didn't know a.out was a file format -- just thought it was a filename.
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