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Subject: Re: Why do there appear to be two stubs in some files?
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> From: "Andrew Cottrell" <acottrel AT ihug DOT com DOT au>
> Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2001 19:20:18 +1100
> 
> In checking that I have updated the files correctly using the patched 2.03 I
> spotted that some of the exe files appear to have two stubs in them. Some of
> the files that I checked that looked like they had two stubs in them are:-
>     as.exe
>     ar.exe
>     objdump.exe
>     objcopy.exe
> 
> The ones I seen all come from binutils.

That's because Binutils include a copy of the stub, to be able to
create a stubified executable without requiring stubify.exe.  For
examlpe, ld.exe and objcopy.exe should be able to produce such
executables.

As for others, I'm guessing that at least some of them get the stub
because they use the same code as ld and objcopy.