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I am very much new to Device driver programming. I was going through below website. http://www.codeproject.com/KB/system/driverdev.aspx

I was just confused with the word "binary". The particular statement says "The linker builds the final binary, and based on what the options are in the PE header....". So my question is what does binary means in Device Driver programming?

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    It means the same as for every other program: machine code. If you really want to do linux programming as your tags suggest you might want to find another guide …
    – filmor
    Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 13:49
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    @filmor: Could please suggest me some good tutorials, who are providing good depth knowledge on Device driver programming along with some dummy code.
    – Rasmi Ranjan Nayak
    Commented Jan 10, 2012 at 13:51

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Firstly See Binary File on Wikipedia

Generally a binary file is any file that stores data in a non-human readable format. Therefore, word processor documents, spread sheets, databases and executable files (runnable program files) are all binary files (if you open them in a simple text editor, or echo them to the console, they don't make a lick of sense, they need another program or the OS to make sense of them).

In this instance "final binary file" would be the executable (or library file) that your source code is compiled to.

None of this is linux specific, but is general across all computer artectures (and probably some pedant will point out a computer/OS where this doesn't apply, so nearly all or all common could replace the all above)

Hope this helps

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Binary means the compiled and linked object code, as opposed to the source code.

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