Upgraded to new ELFkickers from August 2000.

committer: mfx <mfx> 968636590 +0000

src/stub/util/sstrip/README

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ sstrip is a very simplistic program. It depends upon the common
 practice of putting the parts of the file that contribute to the
 memory image at the front, and the remaining material at the end. This
 permits it to discard the latter material without affecting file
-offsets and memory addresses in what remains. However, the ELF
+offsets and memory addresses in what remains. Of course, the ELF
-standard permits files to be organized in almost any order. So
+standard permits files to be organized in almost any order, so if a
-although this procedure usually works in practice, it is not meant to
+pathological linker decided to put its section headers at the top,
-be taken too seriously.
+sstrip would be useless on such executables.

src/stub/util/sstrip/README.1ST

@@ -68,3 +68,21 @@ Share and enjoy.
 Brian Raiter
 breadbox@muppetlabs.com
 July, 1999
+
+________________
+
+
+This is a minor update of the original release. Shortly after
+installing a 2.2 Linux kernel, I discovered that changes to the system
+header files, plus a new warning in gcc 2.95.2, caused several of the
+programs to generate numerous compiler warnings and errors. The errors
+were caused by system headers re-defining a macro (benignly), and were
+suppressed by rearranging the inclusion of some header files. The
+warnings were due to my taking advantage of the standard feature of
+omitting trailing initializers in the definition of a structure, and
+were suppressed by omitting the -W gcc option in the Makefiles,
+leaving just -Wall. My apologies to any Linux 2.2 users who were
+bitten by this. (Hopefully Linux 2.4 isn't in the process of breaking
+this version as I write.)
+
+August, 2000