Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 01:26:50PM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>$ uname -svr
>CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.0(0.86/3/2) 2003-06-02 00:41
>
>The new sparse file heuristic is being triggered by the way binutils writes
>.exe and .dll files.
>
>I'm unsure this could be worked around. Any ideas?

Since you are the principal complainer about this particular feature,
why don't you analyze *what* is causing this in binutils?  Is ld
*really* writing files beyond EOF?  Or is something else going on?

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