I didn't like the way the GNU utils have a shell script for true/false,
and have rewritten it to be in assembly. Now, it was small, and
statically linked. However, I was not really satisfied, since it had some
superfluous sections (.note, .comment). Ok, I fired up strip, and get rid
of them. And I tried to be very smart, and remove the empty data and bss
sections too. :) All seemed to be well, up until the new exception
handling mechanism. Now, (although it seems to work), it produces an
"Exception at" message. Could someone take a look at it? :) Is it really
a problem, or is it against the standards to have an elf binary which
do only have a .text section?
Janos
[shadow] ~/New 502> ls -al =true
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 284 Nov 02 19:38 /bin/true
[shadow] ~/New 503> objdump --disassemble-all /bin/true
/bin/true: file format elf32-i386
No symbols in "/bin/true".
Disassembly of section .text:
08048074 movl $0x1,%eax
08048079 movl $0x0,%ebx
0804807e int $0x80
[shadow] ~/New 504> uuencode true <=true
begin 644 true
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