If you freeze bacon, then thaw it out after it's expiration date, how long is it good for?
up vote 3 down vote. A .o object file file (also .obj on Windows) contains compiled object code (that is, machine code produced by your C or C++ compiler), together with the names of the functions and other objects the file contains. Object files are processed by the linker to produce the final executable.
WAVE PCM soundfile format. The WAVE file format is a subset of Microsoft's RIFF specification for the storage of multimedia files. A RIFF file starts out with a file header followed by a sequence of data chunks. A WAVE file is often just a RIFF file with a single WAVE chunk which consists of two sub-chunks -- a fmt  chunk specifying the data format and a data chunk containing the actual sample data. Call this form the Canonical form. Who knows how it really all works.