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Re: Different executables of the same source


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.



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