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Date:	Tue, 03 Nov 1998 22:52:55 -0100
From:	Robert Hoehne <robert DOT hoehne AT gmx DOT net>
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: 'Strip' embedded an e-mail into my EXE file
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Kirk Hobart wrote :
> 
> I'm running DJGPP in a DOS window under Win95. I compiled a trivial
> "hello world" C program using gcc v2.81 and strip v2.8.1:
> 
>   gcc -Wall hello.c -o hello.exe
>   strip hello.exe
> 
> I examined hello.exe with a hex viewer, and found a chunk of
> irrelevant text located about 2k bytes into the file. I recognized it
> as a recent e-mail. YIKES! Each time I repeat the compile+strip
> process, strip embeds different junk into hello.exe.
> 
> Is 'strip' guilty of this evil, or is my DJGPP installation broken?

This is a known misfeature of the DJGPP port of binutils
(where strip belongs to). To solve this, create the stripped
executable directly by adding the -s switch to gcc

   gcc -s -Wall hello.c -o hello.exe


Robert
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