Re: FYI: dh_upx compresses i386 executables
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On 21-Apr-2001 Philip Blundell wrote:
> John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>>i would strongly object to this. how would it affect other tools, such
>>as ident, ldd, and strings?
>
> It would be easy enough to copy the DT_NEEDED records into the compressed
> executable, which would probably be sufficient for ldd to report the right
> answers. But ident and strings are clearly going to be a dead loss on
> compressed executables. That doesn't strike me as a complete disaster so
> long
> as there is some way to un-UPX a binary and get your original executable back
> should you need to start poking at it with these tools. (Stripped binaries
There is: just upx -d it. (you can even run md5sum before and after
compression/decompression to find out for yourself that the decompressed file
is the same as before.)
> don't seem to be especially contentious, and they're also pretty much useless
> when it comes to debugging.)
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