Nick Clifton nickc@redhat.com
Fri Feb 6 13:02:00 GMT 2009

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Hi Dave,

> Would we like this behaviour to be controlled by a
> command-line flag, rather than just forcefully disabled?

Yes. :-)

>     Anyway, that's a bit more work than doing it the crude way, so I'd 
> like to canvass some idea of the interest before getting too far into it.

No one should be afraid of hard work. :-)

The tools definitely should conform to the spec, so I think that whilst 
having the current behaviour available as a feature is a good idea, the 
default should be to disable the presence of long names (and the string 
table) in PE executables.

Cheers
   Nick

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