Different executables of the same source

[Shankar Unni]

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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