Re: OCaml binary stripping (was: Re: OCaml 5 again)

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On Wed, Jul 12, 2023 at 3:34 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I looked through the section names with objdump -h and none of them
> looked unusual.  However I think in the past when we analyzed this we
> found it was doing something really crazy, like actually appending the
> bytecode to the file (ie. not using the ELF format at all).

That was the conclusion I had just come to.  In the unstripped binary,
the ELF structure accounts for about 700K, but the file size is over
3M.  It looks like they really do just append the bytecode to the
file.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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