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Rui Maciel
Juha said:I think I know what happened here. When someone said that an object file
contains compiled machined code, you erroneously thought that he meant
that an object file is directly executable as-is. Thus in your typical
sociopath manner you loudly and proudly objected to the notion.
The problem isn't quite that. The expression "object file" doesn't refer to
the same concept as "object code", and the comparison is supposed to be
between "machine code" and "object code", not between "machine code" and
"object file". The "object file" concept has been introduced to this
discussion as a strawman, and therefore it doesn't make sense to draw any
conclusion regarding how "object code" and "machine code" are supposed to be
two different things by comparing "object files" to "machine code". It
would be like arguing that "figures" and "images" are two different things,
and then proceeding to discuss how the PNG file format stores information
which doesn't form part of a figure, and therefore that meant that figures
and images aren't the same thing. And this would be silly.
Rui Maciel