Editing Microsoft Macro Assembler (section)

==Object module formats supported by MASM==
Early versions of MASM generated object modules using the [[Relocatable Object Module Format|OMF]] format, which was used to create binaries for [[MS-DOS]] or [[OS/2]].

Since version 6.1, MASM is able to produce object modules in the [[Portable Executable]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/a/eba1050f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/pecoff.doc |title=Archived copy |access-date=2008-06-24 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090126141159/http://download.microsoft.com/download/e/b/a/eba1050f-a31d-436b-9281-92cdfeae4b45/pecoff.doc |archive-date=2009-01-26 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=19509|title=WHDC White Papers and Documentation|website=[[Microsoft]]|access-date=25 September 2016}}</ref> (PE/COFF) format. PE/COFF is compatible with recent Microsoft C compilers, and object modules produced by either MASM or the C compiler can be routinely intermixed and linked into Win32 and Win64 binaries.