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From: drh@notecnirp.Princeton.EDU (Dave Hanson)
Newsgroups: gnu.gcc.bug
Subject: Re: GCC version number in .o files -- bad idea
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Date: 15 Mar 89 12:51:58 GMT
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In article <WEENING.89Mar14212528@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU>
	weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes:
	The assembler creates .o files, not GCC.  I can't think of any change
	one can make to GCC that will affect whether .o files are time-stamped.

.asciz "gcc version 1.34.0/Wed Mar 15 07:49:48 EST 1989"

stamps the .o file regardless of object format.