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> This is a weird problem that `ld' should really detect and prevent
> (via a warning message).
>
> To reproduce:
>
> $ cat > test.c
> main () { printf("this is a test\n"); }
> ^D
> $ gcc -o test.o test.c (Note the missing "-c")
> $ file test.o
> test.o: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC) not stripped
> $ gcc -o test test.o
> $ file test
> test: Linux/i386 demand-paged executable (QMAGIC) not stripped
> $ test.o
> this is a test
> $ test
> [ no output ]
>
> When this snuck up on us for real, it caused lots of problems and took
> a bit of debugging to track down a bad Makefile.
>
> Sometimes, they'll (twice linked binaries) run peacefully, but
> sometimes they do bad things: seg. fault (untraceable) and suck up all
> virtual memory are the two I've seen.
>
> Could some better magic detection be put into ld?
>
> - Dan
>
That is also true for the gas2 snapshot.
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H.J. Lu
NYNEX Science and Technology, Inc. hjl@nynexst.com