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From: Raeburn@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Raeburn)
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Subject: Re: gcc testing fails (dec-3100)
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Date: 17 Nov 89 05:06:00 GMT
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>Comparing the resulting *.o files (even by stripping the 10 first
>chars) failed (the objects have the same length, but differ far down
>in the file, all of them).

I ran into this quite a while ago.

The .o files contain the names of the .s temporary files produced
during compilation.  I use "cmp -l", and generally find two or three
bytes at the start of the file (the timestamp) and maybe three or four
much later in the file (the filename) different, but the rest the
same.

-- Ken