Development Environment:Assembler

COFF Object Files

Assembler

Assembler Source Files

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What we hand to the assembler is the source file which the assembler translates into a relocatable object module. We call that a COFF file, that's a standard way of generating modular assembly language files.

Once we get the object file, the goal is to get the pieces into memory in the desired location and that's the job of the linker, which we will examine shortly.