Little surprises inside of compiled files
Sergey Okhapkin
sos@buggy.prospect.com.ru
Sun Apr 12 01:00:00 GMT 1998
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
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