Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:32:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler (fwd)
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It looks like Binutils 2.9.5.x adds random garbage from the disk to the 
executable, for alignment purposes.  I think this is a pest (you risk to 
have the company secrets or the latest letter to your lover to be read 
by half the world and their dog ;-)  Is it possible to change that in the 
next upload of Binutils?  (Perhaps it's already solved in v2.10, I didn't 
yet install that.)

See the message below for details.  This thread began when someone told 
that running `strip' after "gcc -s" makes the program smaller (by exactly 
2KB, I must add).

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2000 15:32:06 -0500
From: Josh Haglund <lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler

It print this after ld --version:

GNU ld 2.9.5
Copyright 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public Licencs.  This program has absolutely no warranty.
  Supported emulations:
   i386go32

[Windows 95] C:\WINDOWS>

That's all.

8>)
Josh Haglund
lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Josh Haglund" <lhaglund AT wiktel DOT com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 3:24 AM
Subject: Re: is it possible to use strip option in call to compiler


> 
> On Mon, 26 Jun 2000, Josh Haglund wrote:
> 
> > It reduces it a bit more.
> > I am surprised it reduces it somemore, because I
> > already used -s.
> 
> Looks like a bug in Binutils.
> 
> What version of Binutils do you have installed?  What does "ld --version"
> print?