From:	"Alexei A. Frounze" <dummy_addressee AT hotmail DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Strange text in non stripped header files
Date:	Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:46:52 -0500
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"Cesar Rabak" <csrabak AT uol DOT com DOT br> wrote in message
news:3AAC38EB DOT D71AC69E AT uol DOT com DOT br...
> 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'?

This is okay because if sections are aligned to certain location in the
file, there are gaps w/o any meaningful information. And
compiler/linker/whatever can just skip filling those gaps with 0s or
anything and you end up with some junk that was in clusters before.

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