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From:	Ian Rees <ianr44 AT hotmail DOT nospam DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: strange text inside exe
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Date:	Fri, 12 Oct 2001 00:06:02 -0400
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What is the garbage doing in the exe file in the first place?  It would
seem to me if kryo could see enough of the 'garbage' to tell it's code, it
is probably wasting a fair amount of space (of course this is of little
significance when a meg of hard disk space cost like $0.0025) Just
curious.


-Ian-

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

> kryo69 AT email DOT cz wrote:
>
> > I have small question/problem. Sometimes when I create program using
> > djgpp,gcc I see some parts of source code inside exe file. Sometimes
>
> That's random garbage found somewhere in your machine's memory,
> written into the file because of a slight bug in GNU binutils --- it
> should have been filled with zeroes, instead.  An update to the most
> recent version should fix that, IIRC.
> --
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
> Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.

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