windres regression with control strings spanning multiple lines

Brian Dessent brian@dessent.net
Mon Mar 17 13:13:00 GMT 2008


Kai Tietz wrote:

> > I'm not sure what fields those bytes represent, and whether they matter
> > or are just coincidental uninitialized foo.  I suppose the test could
> > ignore the first 0x40 bytes of the section if that makes the results
> > stable.
> 
> These are timestamps, so this variant won't work.

That would explain it.  But similarly to how the gcc bootstrap uses cmp
--ignore-initial=16, could the testcase not just ignore the first 0x40
bytes of the section when comparing?  Or are the timestamps in other
locations?

Brian



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