It's should be elf format file, you can read it by tool: readelf or objdump. Kr Edward -----Original Message----- From: gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gcc-help-owner@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Sigurd Lerstad Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2006 11:57 PM To: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: object file format Hello, I have (partially) succeeded in compiling gcc as a crosscompiler on win32 with this target: m68k-amiga-coff I need to read the object files created when compiling cpp files with this crosscompiler, but my filetype recognition program doesn't recognize the filetype, it doesn't seem to be coff object files or a.out files. Does anybody know the filetype? Here's a ascii dump of the beginning of the object file, (couldn't figure out how to copy/paste as hex) ------------------ PE0!ÿD.text T .data @.bss ------------- thanks, -- Sigurd Lerstad