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From: rfg@MCC.COM (Ron Guilmette)
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Subject: Re: GCC version number in .o files -- bad idea
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Date: 14 Mar 89 21:03:00 GMT
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Dear John,

This has been mentioned before to the gcc bug mailing lists.
Somebody pointed out that for COFF files, you can get them
to compare the same if you skip over the first few bytes of
both files before starting the compare.  I've forgotten now
what the suggested way of doing that was.  Anybody care to
refresh my memory?

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