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NO "Instability"! (Miscellaneous)

posted by sol, 07.11.2007, 00:38

> UPX adds its own decompression code, thus the main UPX program is NOT
> NEEDED by compressed files at load-time.

Thank you for stating the obvious.

> And using UPX for object-file compression has NEVER caused ANY
> "instability" of which I am aware. If this were so, I would not be using
> UPX.

Changes in 3.01 (31 Jul 2007):
* bug fixes
* dos/exe: fixed an incorrect error message caused by a bug in
relocation handling

Changes in 2.93 beta (08 Mar 2007):
* dos/exe: fixed a rarely occuring bug in relocation handling

These are bugs fixed in the most recent versions of UPX. All software has bugs, and there are of course more to be fixed. I've had plenty of problems with packers, UPX included.

I meant that "to be SAFE" it would be a better idea not to compress them by default, rather than save 1k that no one needs except for people who can easily compress it themselves.

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Complete thread:

• UIDE "Packed File" Usage. - Jack R. Ellis, 06.11.2007, 18:06 (Miscellaneous)
  • UIDE "Packed File" Usage. - sol, 06.11.2007, 20:01
    • NO "Instability"! - Jack, 07.11.2007, 00:08
      • NO "Instability"! - sol, 07.11.2007, 00:38
        • NO "Instability"! - Jack, 07.11.2007, 01:33
        • Other Thoughts ... - Jack, 07.11.2007, 02:51
          • Other Thoughts ... - sol, 07.11.2007, 03:53
  • Comments Addressed To RR. - Jack, 07.11.2007, 05:37
    • Solomon - lucho, 07.11.2007, 08:14
    • Comments Addressed To RR. - Steve, 07.11.2007, 09:13
    • Comments Addressed To RR. - rr, 07.11.2007, 10:34
      • Good guys, let's move to the Udo's forum! - lucho, 07.11.2007, 10:50
        • Good guys, let's move to the Udo's forum! - rr, 07.11.2007, 11:07
      • THANK You!! - Jack, 07.11.2007, 11:33
        • THANK You!! - rr, 07.11.2007, 12:02
      • Comments Addressed To RR. - Khusraw, 07.11.2007, 11:37
        • Comments Addressed To RR. - rr, 07.11.2007, 12:13
  • UIDE "Packed File" Usage. - avoskov, 07.11.2007, 08:34
    • UIDE "Packed File" Usage. - rr, 07.11.2007, 10:10