Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:19:29 -0800 From: peter.edwards@openet-telecom.com To: "Terry Lambert" <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, "Julian Elischer" <julian@elischer.org> Cc: "FreeBSD current users" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: comparing executables Message-ID: <3C8F04A10000036B@gpo.openet-telecom.lan> In-Reply-To: <3CAB6E05.EB505842@mindspring.com>
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>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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