Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start?

From	Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Subject	Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start?
Date	2025-06-08 18:32 +0200
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In article <lKm*MFveA@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>,
   Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> wrote:

>> What is the file type of machine code? In Bruce Smith book "Raspberry Pi
>> Assembly Language" he saves a block of memory with the command *save
>> <filename> <startaddr>+<length>. The saved file has no file type. By a
>> double click the code is running from the desktop in single mode, though.
>>
>> Where do I find the starting point of such a code? What is the address
>> where the machine code is starting?

> This is the territory of executable formats.

[...]

Many thanks! I found the Appendix D: Code file formats in RISC OS 3
Programmer's Reference Manual Volume 4. I'm not sure if I will
understand that all. It's a shame that I never read about that in the
GAG-News or any other publication in a clear understandable way.

A.

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File type of machine code? Where does it start? Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2025-06-07 17:41 +0200
  Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2025-06-07 18:14 +0100
    Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2025-06-08 18:26 +0200
  Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-06-08 11:02 +0100
    Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2025-06-08 18:32 +0200
      Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2025-06-19 07:22 +0200
        Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Jean-Michel <jmc.bruck@orange.fr> - 2025-06-19 11:23 +0200
          Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-06-24 20:47 +0100
            Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> - 2025-06-25 09:29 +0100
        Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Martin <News03@avisoft.f9.co.uk> - 2025-06-19 10:48 +0100
          Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Alexander Ausserstorfer <bavariasound@chiemgau-net.de> - 2025-06-20 17:22 +0200
            Re: File type of machine code? Where does it start? Matthew Phillips <spam2011m@yahoo.co.uk> - 2025-06-21 08:20 +0100
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