From:	Cesar Rabak <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Strange text in non stripped header files
Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:48:11 -0300
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Using:

gcc version 2.952, binary size 237112 bytes and dated Jan 14 2000, and 
ld version 2.9.5, binary size 406016  bytes and dated Feb 28 2000.

After compiling a relatevely large source file 267652 bytes, I'm getting
a strange result when creating programs w/o stripping. Namely in the
start of the a.out file it is possible to find a part of a text which
seems to be part of a gxxFAQ.info! The strange text starts at offset
0xa8 and goes up to 0x10a7.

It doesn't happen when one compiles a 'hello world' type of programm, so
it may be difficult to reproduce*.
Did you notice this before? Can it be considered 'normal'?

TIA

Cesar

(*) The source being compiled is the Per Bergsten's 'ptc' utility
(comp.unix.sources vol. 10 and patches in vol 13 [ref. in the C FAQ]).

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