Thread: [ASSEMBLER] How easy is it to get started asm coding on Maemo5?
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2012-09-19 , 10:44
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Originally Posted by reinob View Post
@wook_sf,

ELF existed before ARM. It's used by most Linux/Unix operating systems, and is architecture-independent, meaning it can be used for x86, ARM, or whatever. Originally it was used for x86.

AFAIK Symbian used an ELF-like (or ELF-derived) format, but not quite ELF.

I'm not aware of any Windows (CE or not) versions using ELF natively. Windows (including CE) uses PE (portable executable).
well, pe for winCE have ELF header same as PE for win32 have MZ (dos header)
ELF is officially supported by arm and that format is used for this processor.
there was one really really good book about arm asm that explains lot about assembly, in my opinion far better for students than any other book i've read and i will try to link it here.

about symbian - i wasn't talking about EPOC, but about ELF
basicly, elfs should be runnable on every arm machine
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