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Re: Little surprises inside of compiled files
- To: afn06760 at afn dot org
- Subject: Re: Little surprises inside of compiled files
- From: William Greathouse <wgreathouse at smva dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 09:06:20 -0400
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- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Organization: SMV America, Engineering R&D
- References: <199804112125.VAA38826@out5.ibm.net>
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:
>
.... Deleted sample for brevity ....
>
Try running peclean (attached) on the files. This will zero fill the
empty areas and verify the .reloc section termination.
Enjoy,
Bill
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