Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 00:21:48 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: strange text inside exe
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> From: "Marp" <marp AT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0 DOT 0>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:45:00 -0400
> >
> > It could be up to 2KB max, hardly something to care about.
> 
> Doesn't it concern you that sensitive data that doesn't belong in there
> could end up in there (however slight that risk might be)?

Yes, that concerns us; that's why that bug is fixed by the combination
of changes in Binutils (available in the latest port on SimTel) and a
change in the library functions the linker calls (wikll be available
when the next DJGPP version is out).

> Why do the tools
> assume that disk space is automatically initialized when it is allocated?

It's a bug.