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? -- 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/