Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 05:33:46PM +0200, Markus Mauhart wrote: >> Now it has been proven that each cygwin installation manipulating 1000s of >> files only suffers from this "feature"; not to mention that it breaks >> winfile.exe :-(((. > > The next Cygwin version will produce sparse files only if the application > decides to write 64K or more beyond EOF.
Unfortunately, ld does seems to so this when writing PE files (well, I'm guessing libbfd, since strip does as well). No, I haven't verified this in the source - I've got university exams, so I'm a little busy! Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
