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From: Alexey Neyman <alex.neyman@auriga.ru>
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hi, there!

On Monday 02 June 2003 19:02, David O'Brien wrote:
DO>> BTW, I have a patch that strips the version information (more 
precisely,
DO>> .comment section, that contains $FreeBSD$ strings and a handful of
DO>> compiler versions "GCC: (GNU) 3.2.2 [FreeBSD] 20030205 (release)") 
into
DO>> a separate file and installs it under a separate name 
(${KMOD}.version
DO>> or kernel.version).
DO> 
DO> What's the problem with a large amount .comment section bits?  They
DO> should not be loaded into memory when an ELF file is loaded.  The 
only
DO> place it causes trouble is on the installation floppies when the 
size of
DO> the file on disk is an issue -- but we strip out the .comment 
section
DO> when building the floppy images.

Well, sorry for the noise. I just checked that 5.0-RELEASE floppies
contain the .comment section in the kernel. However, 5.1-BETA2 do not,
that is, such stripping was introduced somewhere in between... This,
of course, renders this patch useless.

Regards,
Alexey.

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