, for "eXtended COFF", is an improved and expanded version of the COFF Object File Format defined by IBM and used in AIX . Early versions of the PowerPC Macintosh also supported XCOFF, as did BeOS .
XCOFF additions include the use of to provide subsection granularity of cross-references, and the use of Stabs for Debugging . Information for the handling of Shared Libraries is also more elaborate than for plain COFF.
More recently, IBM defined an version supporting 64-bit AIX, and used '''XCOFF32''' to mean the original file format.
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