From: "Rafal 'Raf256' Maj" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Memory trash in exe ? Date: 30 May 2002 19:31:23 GMT Organization: news.onet.pl Lines: 14 Sender: raf256 AT poczta DOT onet DOT pl@62.233.182.179 Message-ID: References: <200205301841 DOT g4UIfFB21472 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 62.233.182.179 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.onet.pl 1022787083 19429 62.233.182.179 (30 May 2002 19:31:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT onet DOT pl NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 May 2002 19:31:23 GMT User-Agent: Xnews/5.03.24 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ Delorie wrote in news:200205301841 DOT g4UIfFB21472 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com: > This is a "feature" of DOS and Windows. When you seek in a file, the > holes are filled from an uninitialized buffer. BFD does these types > of seeks, so you see the junk in objects and executables. can BFD take in cosider this bug in Dos/Win and fix it ? it doesnt sound difficult - just write zero's instead of seek -- Rafał 'Raf256' Maj GG-1175498