An object and executable come in several formats such as ELF (Executable and Linking Format) and COFF (Common Object-File Format) depending on OS . An object file is basically a file containing ...

An install program is similar to a self-extracting archive, which is a collection of compressed files packaged as one executable program. When a self-extracting archive is run, ...

A new approach to hiding data within executable computer program files could make it almost impossible to detect hidden documents. A new approach to hiding data within executable computer program ...

The loader is a program called execve, which loads the code and data of the executable object file into memory and then runs the program by jumping to the first instruction. a.out was first coined as ...