Binary Format Support
A comparison of OS support for different binary formats (executables):
| Kernel Name | a.out | ECOFF | ELF | FDPIC ELF binaries (mmu less) |
flat binaries (superH) |
HUNK | Mach-O | Misc (wrapper based, like interpreters) |
PE | SOM (PA-RISC, HP-UX) |
NLM | PEF | DOS COM | MZ | LE | LX | NE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amiga Exec | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| HP-UX | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Linux kernel | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Some | Yes | ? | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| MINIX 3 | Some | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| NetBSD kernel | Yes | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| ReactOS kernel | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Solaris kernel | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Some | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| Windows NT kernel | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ? | ? | ? | ? | ? |
| XNU | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | No |
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