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From: "Alex Vinokur" <alexvn AT connect DOT to>
Subject: Re: Different executables of the same source
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 06:39:28 +0200
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"Shankar Unni" wrote in message news:c0c593$2mo$1 AT sea DOT gmane DOT 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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