From:	your AT name DOT here (Kirk Hobart)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	'Strip' embedded an e-mail into my EXE file
Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 1998 13:14:10 GMT
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I'm running DJGPP in a DOS window under Win95. I compiled a trivial
"hello world" C program using gcc v2.81 and strip v2.8.1:

  gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello.exe
  strip hello.exe

I examined hello.exe with a hex viewer, and found a chunk of
irrelevant text located about 2k bytes into the file. I recognized it
as a recent e-mail. YIKES! Each time I repeat the compile+strip
process, strip embeds different junk into hello.exe.

Is 'strip' guilty of this evil, or is my DJGPP installation broken?

DJP v1.07 appears to generate clean EXE files.

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