#3571: Bizzarely bloated binaries
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone: 7.0.1
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.10.4
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty: Unknown
Os: Unknown/Multiple | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: None/Unknown
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Comment(by batterseapower):
Of course, it is expected behaviour that strip eliminates the bloat. The
point of the trimming code above is to demonstrate that almost all of the
effect of strip is just because it removes useless gunk that lives outside
*any PE section*! This trimming can be accomplished by just truncating the
PE to the image length encoded within it.
Even debug data should have a section - indeed many PE executables have a
.debug section - but this stuff at the end is not in any section and
therefore just seems entirely redundant.
So even though we know that strip fixes the problem, we do not know why
the problem exists in the first place...
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3571#comment:8>
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