On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Alex Vinokur wrote: > "Demmer, Thomas" <TDemmer at krafteurope dot com> wrote in message > Please, no plain text email addresses in replies. They are food for spammers. Thanks.
> >"Alex Vinokur" wrote: > >>[...] > >>$ gcc foo.c -o x1.exe > >> > >>$ gcc foo.c -o x2.exe > >> > >>$ cmp x1.exe x2.exe > >>x1.exe x2.exe differ: char 137, line 2 > >> > >>Why are x1.exe and x2.exe different? > >> > >Because the PE header has a field that contains > >the creation time. > > > What does 'the PE header' mean? > The section header defined by Microsoft's "Portable Executable" extension to the COFF (Common Object File Format) specification. -- Brian Ford Senior Realtime Software Engineer VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems FlightSafety International Phone: 314-551-8460 Fax: 314-551-8444 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
