From: esand AT netcom DOT com (Eugene Sanders)
Subject: Random bytes in .exe
3 Mar 1998 05:13:45 -0800
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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?


Eugene Sanders
Topology Corporation
esand AT netcom DOT com
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