pe/coff doesn't support anything like mach-o's nfat_arch header/fat_arch structs... | Hacker News

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		msbarnett on Nov 21, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft planning to enable x86 on ARM64 emulatio... pe/coff doesn't support anything like mach-o's nfat_arch header/fat_arch structs, so it's unlikely

DHowett on Nov 22, 2016 [–]

FWIW, neither did Mach-O in the beginning; the fat magic and fat_arch structs are bolted onto an archive of single-architecture binaries, and they debuted in 2005.

msbarnett on Nov 22, 2016 | [–]

Erm, in Mach-O it dates back at least to the OpenSTEP multi-architecture support, which was early-to-mid 1990s?

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