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Add support for COFF

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
compilers

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository's existing PE support and the public information available for COFF. Determine the requirements for parsing COFF files generated by MSVC and clang, then define what supported parsing should cover and validate it against representative files.

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Description

enhancement Help Welcome

PE has been added recently, but COFF can be a beast on its one. Some parts of PE could be reused, but it will still require quite some work.

It is also unclear how much has public information to effectively parse existing COFF files generated by MSVC/clang.

Dominant language
C#
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Forks
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Avg merge
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Merged PRs (30d)
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