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Re: why no gcc3_compiled symbol
- From: "John David Anglin" <dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca>
- To: phil at jaj dot com (Phil Edwards)
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org, drow at mvista dot com
- Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2002 13:57:14 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: why no gcc3_compiled symbol
> There's a wishlist PR, c/2676, asking for the command-line options to
> be recorded in the object files. I implemented most of it, but there's
> no useful way of getting the information back out, because nobody ever
> finished writing the BFD/libbfd.a documentation. So the patch rotted.
HP appears to include file dates and compiler version as well. For
people seriously involved in software maintenance, this is obviously
very useful information to have.
Dave
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