Both Java .class files and Mach-O fat binaries have the same magic signature, 0xCAFEBABE. When reading binary files, what's a good way to disambiguate ...

I have developed a python script to automate few things present in text file. when converted this python file to the executable in ubuntu20.04 version ...

I'm reading the PE format document. In the document, the word "image" appears many times and seems always comes along with the word "executable". Howe ...

Introduction I'm compiling a simple assembly code (Intel syntax, x86, Linux) printing "Hello World!". Here it is: I compile it with the following ...

Is it possible to create an executable file where I can just upload the excels and an output is generated based on the coding and without sharing it a ...

What instruction set architecture does an LE (linear executable) file have? The linked article says: mixed 16/32 bit. Does it mean that the same L ...

So I have a python code now that I want other folks to use. They don't have Python installed on their computers. I have seen people convert their code ...

I want to understand how Linux executable file is consisted of. Where can I get the specification? I compiled a simple assemble file with gcc but the ...

Understanding the Linux Kernel says An executable format is described by an object of type linux_binfmt, which essentially provides three methods: ...

My java program contains two operations that uses data's stored in two different .txt files. It works completely fine when running using Netbeans but ...

When I try to execute a 32-bit file compiled with gcc -m32 main.c -o main on Windows Subsystem for Linux, I get the following error: bash: ./main: can ...

I'm using otool to get information about my binary. Here is part of my output: We can see here that command 1 with segname __TEXT starts at vmaddr ...

Can anyone please share some link or book that explains in detail about how a process is created from an ELF file. Most of the materials freely availa ...

I've taken a good time studying TOC and Compiler design, not done yet but I feel comfortable with the conceptions. On the other hand I have a very sha ...

I compiled a C++ program to have an EXE file in release mode. When I open the EXE file in an editor, I see pieces of text blocks, which are mostly the ...

I understand that PE is a modified version of COFF, and that PE+ is a modified version of PE with 64 bit support, but what is PEI? Am I correct in say ...

I am able to parse ASLR, DEP, SEH, etc. from the DOS headers but not sure how to tell if the file was compiled with /GS stack canaries. I am writing ...

I've been reading on the compilation process, I understand some of the earlier concepts like parsing but I stop short of understanding how the executa ...

The Wikipedia page on Core dump says In Unix-like systems, core dumps generally use the standard executable image-format: Does this mean a c ...

I am not trying to compile my source code into an executable. Please read before marking as duplicate. With that said, I apologize if this question h ...