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Re: Can't get binutils to build on Cygwin
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2006 15:57:23 +0200
- Subject: Re: Can't get binutils to build on Cygwin
- References: <20060802133758.GS8152@calimero.vinschen.de>
Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> writes:
> That might be the case, but it doesn't change the fact that users
> out there are using sed to massage binary files. Usually this just
> isn't a problem since POSIX systems don't make a difference between
> binary and text files.
It's a problem even on POSIX hosts, since many implementations of sed have
limits on the line length.
Andreas.
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