Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Shankar Unni Subject: Re: Different executables of the same source Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 18:50:11 -0800 Lines: 9 Message-ID: References: <8D861ADC5B8FD211B4100008C71EA7DA04F7140D AT kjsdemucshrexc1 DOT eu DOT pm DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet AT sea DOT gmane DOT org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-64-165-207-59.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207) In-Reply-To: <8D861ADC5B8FD211B4100008C71EA7DA04F7140D@kjsdemucshrexc1.eu.pm.com> 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. -- 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/