GOFF record formats

The basic GOFF record types are shown below. The names used here are similar to OBJ record names, and have similar functions. The one new type, LEN, has a name with similar mnemonic significance. These names do not appear anywhere on the records, however (unlike OBJ records).

HDR

Header Record: must appear first.

ESD

External Symbol Definition

TXT

Machine language instructions and data (text); Identification Data Record (IDR) data; Associated Data (ADATA); other identification data (more than current 19-byte IDR items); any other data items to become part of the module. (Note that text is used here as a very general term; see the definition in the glossary).

RLD

Relocation Directory (adcon information)

LEN

Supply length values for deferred-length sections

Note: A LEN record is essentially a special form of ESD record, in which only a single piece of data, a length, is provided for a previously defined external name.

END

End of module, with optional entry-point identification. The END record must be the last record in the object file.