Xref: utzoo comp.sources.d:5606 gnu.misc.discuss:1221 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!ames!ads.com!decwrl!ucbvax!ucsd!usc!cs.utexas.edu!oakhill!murf From: murf@oakhill.UUCP (Steve Murphy) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Easy way to tell if something's compiled with gcc? Message-ID: <3527@dingus.oakhill.UUCP> Date: 13 Jul 90 17:31:23 GMT References: Organization: Motorola Inc, Oak Hill, Austin TX Lines: 24 There is one way to quickly ascertain if gcc was used to compile a binary. Try: grep gcc_compiled executable-name gcc does drop a string "gcc_compiled" into object compiled with it. I'm sure that a clever person could turn this off. But Stallman himself said that compiling with gcc doesn't make it public domain. Using libg++ would. But I don't think most sites have access to the C library under development by the GNU project yet. I don't. Based on my own limited experience, I'd have to say that usage of it in the networld must be fairly limited, because it's not distributed yet. Or am I way behind the times? murf -- murf: Steve Murphy, Motorola, Inc. 6501 William Cannon Drive West, MS OE37 Austin, TX 78735 (512)891-2276 !oakhill!murf or murf@oakhill.sps.mot.com