The TADS Ada Development System (TADS) builds object files in a proprietary, yet portable format known as the Tartan Object File Format (TOFF), while tools from many other software vendors build object files in the Common Object File Format (COFF).

It is sometimes desirable to use object files from other vendors' tools, or perhaps to use a linker/locator from another vendor. To achieve this, the TADS toolset supplies the COFF-to-TOFF and TOFF-to-COFF conversion tools.

Please see the TADS Object File Utilities Manual for full details. Note, that debug symbols are NOT translated from TOFF to COFF.