Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:09:34 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Strange text in non stripped header files
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On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Cesar Rabak wrote:

> > What do you see in that portion of the executable in a hello world
> > program?
> 
> I _saw_  a lot of data which seemed binary and I could not link to
> 'garbage'. However, after stubifying it as well (just after the bigger
> programm, another piece of plain text appeared there.
> 
> So, it seems that the behaviour is like you describe and it will not
> warm anything.

I believe work is under way to solve this nuisance, by introducing a 
feature into library functions whereby seeking past EOF will fill the gap 
with zeroes (as opposed to random garbage).  When Binutils are linked 
with that improved library, the problem will go away.