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fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote:
As egor said: it's the timestamp. Almost every object file format in use today has compilation timestamps to identify when the executable was created; many even have other tagging information identifying the compilation environment.The fact that hello.exe alters seems a bit non-optimal to me, given that md5sums are a pretty standard way for people like you and me to check that we're running the same stuff, intended to do the same thing. Incidentally, it's always the same two bytes that alter:
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