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RE: Little surprises inside of compiled files
- To: "gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com" <gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com>, "'afn06760 at afn dot org'" <afn06760 at afn dot org>
- Subject: RE: Little surprises inside of compiled files
- From: Sergey Okhapkin <sos at buggy dot prospect dot com dot ru>
- Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1998 12:01:49 +0400
afn06760@afn.org wrote:
> I have a MINGW32 compiled verison of the Midnight Commander file browser,
> and just accidentally was using it to view the contents of
cygwin-compiled
> files in my /usr/local/bin directory, and I have found pieces of source
> code embedded in the middle of executables:
It's a well-known "feature" of Win95 - when linker does a seek past end of
generated exe file, the gap is filled with random context of computer's
memory rather that with zeroes... The same on NT works as expected.
--
Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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