Bug#293427: LLVM magic partly insufficient

2005-02-25 Thread Al Stone
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:53 +0100, Michael Piefel wrote: > This magic is very weak. Four simple ASCII characters at the beginning > of a file are always suspicious; these four letters even make sense. > This signature is not eligible for inclusion into file. > > The compressed id strings are sligh

Bug#293427: LLVM magic partly insufficient

2005-02-25 Thread Michael Piefel
This magic is very weak. Four simple ASCII characters at the beginning of a file are always suspicious; these four letters even make sense. This signature is not eligible for inclusion into file. The compressed id strings are slightly better. As every LLVM bytecode file is supposed to be compresse