From: "Alexei A. Frounze" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Strange text in non stripped header files Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2001 22:46:52 -0500 Lines: 31 Message-ID: <98hgpa$1vij4$1@ID-57378.news.dfncis.de> References: <3AAC38EB DOT D71AC69E AT uol DOT com DOT br> NNTP-Posting-Host: 209-130-220-11.nas1.roc.gblx.net (209.130.220.11) X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 984368747 2083428 209.130.220.11 (16 [57378]) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com "Cesar Rabak" wrote in message news:3AAC38EB DOT D71AC69E AT uol DOT com DOT br... > Using: > > gcc version 2.952, binary size 237112 bytes and dated Jan 14 2000, and > ld version 2.9.5, binary size 406016 bytes and dated Feb 28 2000. > > After compiling a relatevely large source file 267652 bytes, I'm getting > a strange result when creating programs w/o stripping. Namely in the > start of the a.out file it is possible to find a part of a text which > seems to be part of a gxxFAQ.info! The strange text starts at offset > 0xa8 and goes up to 0x10a7. > > It doesn't happen when one compiles a 'hello world' type of programm, so > it may be difficult to reproduce*. > Did you notice this before? Can it be considered 'normal'? This is okay because if sections are aligned to certain location in the file, there are gaps w/o any meaningful information. And compiler/linker/whatever can just skip filling those gaps with 0s or anything and you end up with some junk that was in clusters before. -- Alexei A. Frounze alexfru [AT] chat [DOT] ru http://alexfru.chat.ru http://members.xoom.com/alexfru/ http://welcome.to/pmode/