GCC file timestamp

Jed Dai mingdai@e28.com
Wed Jun 20 12:35:00 GMT 2007


I occured same issue and could not search the solution on internet. My os is
embeded linux based on 2.4.20.

Ian Lance Taylor-3 wrote:
> 
> Hacker <Roger.Williams@Trans.ge.com> writes:
> 
>> GCC inserts a timestamp in the executables it creates.  Is there a way to
>> turn off this feature?  We want our executables to have the same exact
>> cksum
>> from make to make.
> 
> gcc does not insert a timestamp.  Unless you explicitly use the
> preprocessor macro __TIMESTAMP__ in some way that affects the source
> code.
> 
> I would guess that your assembler is inserting the timestamp when it
> creates the object file.  It's hard to say for sure since you didn't
> mention which operating system you are using.
> 
> Ian
> 
> 

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