gcc binary comparison help

[Andrew Haley]

Caleb Cittadino writes:
 > > Well, you didn't mention anything about what platform and object format
 > > you're using so I don't think you're going to get any definitive
 > > answers.
 > 
 > I'm using MacOSX + gcc4.  What do you mean by object format?
 > 
 > Also, I tried discarding the first 16 bytes as you suggested.  It
 > looks like a different set of data is changing each time, but the file
 > size remains the same.  So this method won't work.
 > 
 > Perhaps it is something in addition to (or instead of) the timestamp
 > that is changing each time?
 > 
 > Any help here is greatly appreciated.

If I were you I'd be comparing assumbly code.

Andrew.