SLAU131V October 2004 – February 2020
The object files created by the assembler and linker conform to the ELF (Executable and Linking Format) binary format, which is used by the Embedded Application Binary Interface (EABI). See the MSP430 Optimizing C/C++ Compiler User's Guide (SLAU132) and The MSP430 Embedded Application Binary Interface Application Report (SLAA534) for information on the EABI ABI.
COFF object files are not supported in v15.6.0.STS and later versions of the TI Code Generation Tools. If you would like to produce COFF output files, please use v4.4 of the MSP430 Code Generation Tools and refer to SLAU131J for documentation.
The ELF object files generated by the assembler and linker conform to the December 17, 2003 snapshot of the System V generic ABI (or gABI).