Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 12:29:32 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii X-Sender: eliz AT is To: Davin McCall cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: DJGPP viruses (Re: HELP! "invalid page exception"??) In-Reply-To: <37df8206.29548410@newsserver.cc.monash.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Davin McCall wrote: > >The DJGPP linker doesn't usually write to the .exe file, unless you > >replaced/edited the djgpp.djl linker script supplied with > >djdevNNN.zip. > > It think it was a reference to the fact that ld actually *creates* exe > files (and writes to them). That's exactly what I was referring to: ld usually does *not* create a .exe file, and does *not* write to it.