Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com From: "Alex Vinokur" Subject: Re: Different executables of the same source Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 16:31:34 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <8D861ADC5B8FD211B4100008C71EA7DA04F7140D@kjsdemucshrexc1.eu.pm.com> X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pop03-2-ras1-p171.barak.net.il X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 "Demmer, Thomas" wrote in message > news:8D861ADC5B8FD211B4100008C71EA7DA04F7140D@kjsdemucshrexc1.eu.pm.com... >"Alex Vinokur" wrote: >[...] >>$ gcc foo.c -o x1.exe >> >>$ gcc foo.c -o x2.exe >> >>$ cmp x1.exe x2.exe >>x1.exe x2.exe differ: char 137, line 2 >> >>Why are x1.exe and x2.exe different? >Because the PE header has a field that contains >the creation time. [snip] What does 'the PE header' mean? -- Alex Vinokur mailto:alexvn@connect.to http://mathforum.org/library/view/10978.html -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/