Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 18:52:42 -0800 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com Cc: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, FreeBSD current users <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: comparing executables Message-ID: <3CABBFFA.16FD8D47@mindspring.com> References: <3C8F04A10000036B@gpo.openet-telecom.lan>
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I guess I wonder why the code differs, then? -- Terry peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com wrote: > > >Compare them without the ELF headers, a section at a time, so > >that the timestamps are irrelevent. > > >From what I recall, there _are_ no timestamps in ELF images, > and compiling the same executable multiple times locally here > seems to bear out the fact: "cmp" on two successive outputs > is identical. > > The only timestamps that could be there would be in the > ident/which strings buried in the code, which would appear in > the ELF section payload: so stripping off the headers won't > help. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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