From: sos@buggy.prospect.com.ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Little surprises inside of compiled files 12 Apr 1998 04:25:20 -0700 Message-ID: <01BD660A.C70AECD0.cygnus.gnu-win32@sos> To: "gnu-win32@cygnus.com" , "'afn06760@afn.org'" afn06760@afn.org wrote: > I have a MINGW32 compiled verison of the Midnight Commander file browser, > and just accidentally was using it to view the contents of cygwin-compiled > files in my /usr/local/bin directory, and I have found pieces of source > code embedded in the middle of executables: It's a well-known "feature" of Win95 - when linker does a seek past end of generated exe file, the gap is filled with random context of computer's memory rather that with zeroes... The same on NT works as expected. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".