From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: wanted: Ada diff tool
Date: 2000/05/05
Date: 2000-05-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8euk28$s5d$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Pine.LNX.4.10.10005050902360.20175-100000@freenet1.afn.org
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005050902360.20175-100000@freenet1.afn.org>,
"Benjamin J. Robinson" <afn46299@afn.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Geoff Bull wrote:
>
> > If you just need to know if the files are functionally different,
> > not where they are different, you could just compile the two files
> > and compare the resulting binaries.
>
> Some compilers have the habit of slipping time-of-compile information
> into the image. This has the effect of making two binaries different,
> even if they were compiled from the same source. Before trying this
> suggestion
The old DEC Ada compiler would even optimize differently, depending on
how much RAM it happened to have available to it when you compiled.
(I got royally roasted here about 7 years ago when I brought this up.)
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Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-02 0:00 wanted: Ada diff tool Terry Westley
2000-05-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-05-03 0:00 ` james hopper
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Benjamin J. Robinson
2000-05-05 0:00 ` Ted Dennison [this message]
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
2000-05-04 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
2000-05-03 0:00 ` James D. Veale
[not found] ` <tlivgsorsn19mtm29qi98c42tac8gnfleg@4ax.com>
2000-05-03 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
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