What's the difference between PE32+ and PE32?

user496949 picture user496949 · Nov 26, 2010 · Viewed 22.3k times · Source

When running CorFlags on some DLL file, some show as PE32 and some show as PE32+. What's the difference?

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Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy picture Srinivas Reddy Thatiparthy · Nov 26, 2010

The PE32 format stands for Portable Executable 32-bit, while PE32+ is Portable Executable 64-bit format.