On Tue, Oct 24, 2000 at 11:06:33AM -0700, Neelakanth wrote: > > Hi, > is there a fail-proof way of recognizing that an object is compiled > by gcc? No, but it is very common gcc compiled ELF objects contain the .comment section with gcc version in it (gcc often emits .ident with gcc version into assembly) and strip without special options keeps it in. Jakub