Bill Birrell wrote in a message to Jasen Betts:

 > BB> I haven't tried to tack stuff on to the end of an executable file.
 > BB> Would the relocation not just overwrite it?

 > It gets "ignored" you have to read from disk as it doesn't get 
 > loaded into memory, unless it's a .com format file in which case
 > there's no relocation.

 BB>     You lost me, Jasen.

What Jasen said is correct, and about as clear as I could formulate it myself.

 BB> A file is a file. You append to it, it gets longer.

True.

 BB> If it's an exe file you are extending, the code segment of
 BB> the exe file is relocated by the loader, which loads the entire
 BB> extended file from disk.

No it doesn't, as Jasen said. It only loads the program itself as specified
in the header.

 BB> I'm not sure you've answered it or even understood what I was 
 BB> getting at.

He did. You seem to be the confused one here :-)

greetings,
Tom
tomtorfs{at}village.uunet.be

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