Date:	Mon, 6 Jan 1997 18:59:04 -0500
Message-Id:	<199701062359.SAA09123@delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970106172424.25502F-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Mon, 6 Jan 1997 17:28:41 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: Patch for binutils dealing with the stub

> DJ, can we have an updated bnu27b.zip with this patch?  I think that the 
> current misfeature of `strip' overwriting the stub will lead to subtle 
> bugs, especially since Binutils on SimTel where only relinked (as opposed 
> to recompiled) with the latest stub, and thus the stub hard-coded inside 
> them is the old, pre-v2.01 one.  So if you strip the .exe, you get the 
> old stub.

I was thinking of that too.  I've been happy that we've gone so long
wihtout *needing* v2.01 patches, though :-)

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