From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 11:09:18 -0400
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Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler (fwd)
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> Is bypassing djgpp.djl important here?  I think it isn't, because the
> garbage gets added with or without it.

It turns out the garbage is due to the linker. There is a gap between the end 
of the various headers at the beginning of the file and the start of the 
first section's contents. That part is not written to by ld and so you get 
the garbage.