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Re: Different executables of the same source
"Shankar Unni" wrote in message c0c593$2mo$1@sea.gmane.org">news:c0c593$2mo$1@sea.gmane.org...
> Demmer, Thomas wrote:
>
> > Because the PE header has a field that contains
> > the creation time. Due to this "feature" the MD5-sums
> > of executables compiled on two different machines will hardly ever
> > concide. I have no clue why this feature exists.
>
> Almost *all* object file formats (ELF, COFF/PE, ...) have such headers,
> to tell you when and where it was built.
>
>
How can one get the creation time of object file foo.o?
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