Binary files differ

[Bill Gatliff]

Daniel: 


Aah, an archive file also has time/date for each member of the archive.  
Definitely a source of diffs. 

You could link a test app, then objcopy to srec and diff that... 


b.g. 


Daniel Lidsten writes: 

> Hi again, 
> 
>> As a guess, I'm wondering if they're related to debugging information 
>> that includes compilation time.  Try using objcopy to translate the 
>> files to binary or S-record, and try your diff again.
> 
> That thought has crossed my mind too but when i run the --strip-all then
> nothing shall remain in the file, especially not such things as compile
> time (as i see it). Regarding the convertion, which was a good idea,
> unfortunatelly i am having trouble converting the file since it is not a
> linked executable but a eCos library (.a). Is there any other way then a
> binary diff to make sure that the build files are the same? 
> 
> Any other ideas? 
> 
> Regards, Daniel Lidsten
 


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