help on PE

[anuradha]

hi can any one tell me what is this PE format means???
thankx

[Vortex]

Microsoft Portable Executable and Common Object File Format Specification

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system/platform/firmware/PECOFF.mspx

[Tedd]

It's just the 'standard' format of Win32 executables :wink

[Vineel Kumar Reddy Kovvuri]

hi anuradha

Every file has a structure for example pdf file ,doc file has there own structures governed by their specifications
likewise an exe , dll ,obj e.t.c also has a structure named as PE(Portable Executable) structure

But the thing is all exe ,dll,obj have almost common file format (coff)  so if u all familar with structure of exe file then
u r also familar with dll and obj.....

look brief look at PE format





the link posted by vortex is the ultimate resource which describes each and every field  of a PE(any exe or dll...)
file . But the problem with that specification is ... it does n't demonstrate how to retrieve each field of a PE file
i.e.., it doesn't programatically show how to know about ...what a PE file actually contain.

if u r familar with C and a concept called memory mapped files the attament to this post will help u understand
the structure in detail and i strongly recommend the PE specification pointed by vortex





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[anuradha]

thanks you all.  :U :U :U :U :U :U