Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 10:58:14 +1100
From: Bill Currie <billc AT blackmagic DOT tait DOT co DOT nz>
Subject: Re: Bug in strip/djp/allegro (was: Re: Need information !!!)
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To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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On 27 Oct 97 at 12:26, Peter Palotas wrote:

> Okay, now I have reproduced an error that only occurs using strip,
> before using djp on a file. I think the bugs I've encountered always
> came when using strip in a combination with djp, however I'm not
> sure of this. 

This is correct. Using strip on a stubbed coff file shifts the 
section contents by about 2k and djp doesn't handle this properly. 


When using djp, it isn't neccessary to strip the exe as it seems djp 
does this itself (it only reads in the .text and .data sections, 
leaving anything else out).

Bill
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