Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:30:00 +0300 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be Message-Id: <9003-Sat28Apr2001092959+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.6 (via feedmail 8.3.emacs20_6 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Fileutils 4.0 beta 2 References: Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > From: "Tim Van Holder" > Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 21:20:52 +0200 > > Guess I was wrong about the date; I last built zip a year ago; but the > uppercase handling is in. I'm pretty sure it's part of the standard distro, > though it _might_ be a local patch. Will update my zip sources (there's > probably a new version by now) and check this weekend. No, you are probably right: I see that zip uses findfirst/findnext, not readdir. I guess Rich still uses an older version of zip (as do I ;-). > > However, I wonder: does this mean that none of the Binutils programs > > will work with these stubs? Will `nm' and `strings' fail, for > > example? > I believe so. I know for a fact that gdb won't work with programs using > nonstandard stubs. This is bad, IMHO. Doing exe2coff+stubify is not something I'd like to tell users to do.