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Re: Comparing binaries automatically

From: Simon Richter <Simon dot Richter at hogyros dot de>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 14:06:10 +0100
Subject: Re: Comparing binaries automatically
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Hi,

On 19.12.2017 05:48, Philip Prindeville wrote:

> Anyone know of a way to do a “smart” comparison of executables (or relocatable objections, or shared libraries, or…)?

The Debian Reproducible Builds project has a tool called "diffoscope",
as well as a few years experience reproducing compilation results, so
this may be a good starting point:

https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds

They don't have a good solution for __DATE__ yet though, unless you
consider a compiler flag warning about its use a solution.

   Simon

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