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   Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to All   
   Re: Binutils   
   04 Sep 25 04:16:16   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Wed, 3 Sep 2025 15:52:27 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:   
      
   > On 9/3/2025 12:20 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:   
   >>   
   >> And here I thought “binary” meant “transfer all the bytes in the file   
   >> as is” ...   
   >   
   > That is the Win/*nix way of thinking.   
      
   That is the only way to preserve round-trip integrity. Or the closest we   
   can get to it.   
      
   > ORG IDX and ORG REL would end up as a huge pile of useless bytes.   
      
   We are not dealing with those here, though.   
      
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