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COF-11(5)                    Retro Project Manual                    COF-11(5)


NAME
       cof-11 - compound output format for absolute loader images

DESCRIPTION
       cof-11 files contain both the full symbol table and the absolute binary
       of an asm-11 compilation in an easy to process text format.  It is usu-
       ally  used  to transfer the compilation result when asm-11 is embedded.
       A cof-11 has a symbol section with a list of  name-value  pairs  and  a
       data  section  with  a  list  of  word or byte blocks. Each block has a
       word/byte indicator, the starting address, and a  blank-separated  list
       of values.  All numerical values are in octal format.

           sym {
           <name> => <value>
           ...
           }
           dat {
           w <addr> {
           <val1> <val2> <val3> ...
           }
           b <addr> {
           <val1> <val2> <val3> ...
           }
           ...
           }

       The symbol table also contains local labels in the form
         incnum => 001154
         incnum:1$ => 001160
         incnum:100$ => 001200
       with the normal label followed by a ':' and the local label.


EXAMPLES
       asm-11 -cof lp11write.mac
           produces a cof-11 file like (shortened for brevity)

             sym {
             ...end => 001000
             bend => 001310
             bnum => 001202
             btxt => 001206
             incnum => 001154
             incnum:1$ => 001160
             incnum:100$ => 001200
             perr => 001150
             ...
             dat {
             w 000004 {
             000006 000000 000012 000000 000016 000000 000022 000000 000026
             000032 000000 000036 000000
             }
             w 000240 {
             000242 000000 000246 000000 000252 000000
             }
             ...
             b 001202 {
             060 060 060 060 072 040 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 110 111 112
             ...
             }
             }

SEE ALSO
       asm-11(1)

AUTHOR
       Walter F.J. Mueller <W.F.J.Mueller@gsi.de>


Retro Project                     2022-05-13                         COF-11(5)