From: earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: Random bytes in .exe 6 Mar 1998 13:55:10 -0800 Message-ID: <19980303161711.28541.qmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@hotmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain To: esand AT netcom DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >From: Eugene Sanders >Subject: Random bytes in .exe >To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com >Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 16:58:13 -0800 (PST) > >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? I haven't looked yet. It will be tonight before I can get on a W95 environment. Thanks for the heads-up. > > >Eugene Sanders >Topology Corporation >esand AT netcom DOT com >- >For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to >"gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > > - \\||// ---o0O0--Earnie--0O0o---- -earnie_boyd AT hotmail DOT com- ------ooo0O--O0ooo------- ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".