Re: Sparse file criteria malfunction - binutils produces sparse .exe & .dll files

["Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre dot Humblet at ieee dot org>]

Christopher Faylor wrote:

> There has been very little actual data provided here 

Here is some data, using the program from 
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-06/msg00321.html

I remade the executables in an old version of inetutils.
The numbers below show that only the larger ones are sparse
(so the relative overhead is small) and that stripping them
removes sparseness. 

Pierre

/usr/src/inetutils-1.3.2-21: for file in */*.exe; do ls -l $file; /a.exe $file;
done
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw         198284 Jun  5 15:23 ftp/ftp.exe*
Sparse bit 200
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw         508186 Jun  5 15:42 ftpd/ftpd.exe*
Sparse bit 200
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw         765064 Jun  5 15:45 inetd/inetd.exe*
Sparse bit 200
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          76703 Jun  5 15:24 rcp/rcp.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw         406162 Jun  5 15:45 rexecd/rexecd.exe*
Sparse bit 200
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          71934 Jun  5 15:24 rlogin/rlogin.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          85888 Jun  5 15:23 rlogind/rlogind.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          63796 Jun  5 15:23 rsh/rsh.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          74703 Jun  5 15:23 rshd/rshd.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          43306 Jun  5 15:24 syslog/syslog.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw         231526 Jun  5 15:23 telnet/telnet.exe*
Sparse bit 200
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw         158706 Jun  5 15:23 telnetd/telnetd.exe*
Sparse bit 200
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          78942 Jun  5 15:24 tftp/tftp.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          69378 Jun  5 15:23 tftpd/tftpd.exe*
Sparse bit 0
-rwxrwxrwx    1 p-humble sw          59463 Jun  5 15:23 uucpd/uucpd.exe*
Sparse bit 0
/usr/src/inetutils-1.3.2-21: strip rexecd/rexecd.exe 
/usr/src/inetutils-1.3.2-21: /a.exe rexecd/rexecd.exe 
Sparse bit 0

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