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Re: Question about past research in detecting compiler used to create executable binary

From: "Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>
To: tejgcc at westnet dot com dot au
Cc: "Stephen Torri" <torrisa at auburn dot edu>, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:04:54 -0800
Subject: Re: Question about past research in detecting compiler used to create executable binary
References: <1201128515.8143.1.camel@dell.linuxdev.us.dell.com> <1201139509.17874.5.camel@tim-gcc>

On 1/23/08, Tim Josling <tejgcc@westnet.com.au> wrote:
> Also in the same file
>
> GCC: (GNU) 4.1.2 (Ubuntu 4.1.2-0ubuntu4)

You can strip out the comment section so this information does not
have to emitted either.  And sometimes it can contain multiple
versions depending on if you have a static library which is compiled
with a different compiler version.

So I would not dependent on this information at all.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

References:
- Question about past research in detecting compiler used to create executable binary
  - From: Stephen Torri
- Re: Question about past research in detecting compiler used to create executable binary
  - From: Tim Josling

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