From:	earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd)
Subject:	Re: Random bytes in .exe
6 Mar 1998 13:55:10 -0800 :
Message-ID:	<19980303161711.28541.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com>
To:	esand AT netcom DOT com
Cc:	gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com

>From: Eugene Sanders <esand AT netcom DOT com>
>Subject: Random bytes in .exe
>To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
>Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:58:13 -0800 (PST)
>
>Running JanJaap's Mingw32 2.8.0 under Win95 I noticed something odd
>in the .exe files produced.  The second 512 bytes have recognizable
>chunks of text having nothing to do with the compiled program.
>
>I'm guessing that the linker is using some piece of uninitialized
>memory that's been left around from a DOS email program.
>
>The .exe files run flawlessly, but it might be embarrassing to
>ship binaries with such unintended embedded text.
>
>Has anyone else noticed anything like this?

I haven't looked yet.  It will be tonight before I can get on a W95 
environment.  Thanks for the heads-up.


>
>
>Eugene Sanders
>Topology Corporation
>esand AT netcom DOT com
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