This is a comparison of executable file formats.

This procedure involves additional overhead and other disadvantages; however, it allows any executable file format to be packed.

Some executable file formats can specify additional directories in which to search for libraries for a particular program.

EXE executable file format.

Most also check that the file has a valid executable file format to safeguard against random bit sequences inadvertently being run as instructions.

CIH spreads under the Portable Executable file format under Windows 95, 98, and ME.

The DOS MZ executable format is the executable file format used for .

The basic structure-a list of variable-length "load commands" that reference pages of data elsewhere in the file-was also used in the executable file format for Accent.

It is possible for the same file format to be used both as linker input and output, and thus as the library and executable file format.

For the similarly named executable file format in the HP-UX operating system, see System Object Model (file format)

If it is , the executable file format is identified by its filename extension: is the file extension to be associated with the binary format; and are ignored.

Hunk is the executable file format of tools and programs of the Amiga Operating System based on Motorola 68000 CPU and other processors of the same family.

Comparison of executable file formats, also for PE/COFF (Windows), and Mach-O (Mac OS X) formats.

An In-Depth Look into the Win32 Portable Executable File Format by Matt Pietrek (MSDN Magazine, March 2002)

However, even the earliest Windows versions already assumed many typical operating system functions; notably, having their own executable file format and providing their own device drivers (timer, graphics, printer, mouse, keyboard and sound).

In computing, the System Object Model (SOM) is a proprietary executable file format developed by Hewlett-Packard for its HP-UX and MPE/ix operating systems.

BusyBox benefits from the single binary approach, as it reduces the overhead introduced by the executable file format (typically ELF), and it allows code to be shared between multiple applications without requiring a library.