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From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: strange error
Date: 20 Jul 2004 09:22:05 GMT
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Sterten <sterten AT aol DOT com> wrote:

> I changed my gc.bat now to
> gcc %1.c -g -O2 -o %1.exe
> strip %1.exe
> echo ----------------------------------------- >>%1.exe
> echo ----------------------------------------- >>%1.exe
> echo ----------------------------------------- >>%1.exe
> type %1.c >>%1.exe

This batch file is a menace to society.  *Don't* muck with .exe files
like that if you expect tools to continue working on them with any
degree of reliability.

In particular, it's completely pointless to compile using the -g flag
if the immediate next step is to strip the resulting .exe file.
You're making it impossible for [bfd]symify to help you.

And for heaaven's sake, please do yourself and everyone else a favour
and learn some actual C some time.  What you've posted is only
marginally different in legibility from FORTRAN 66.  Which was a fine
programming langue in its day, but that was almost 40 years ago.

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.