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14 years ago

Binary Comparisons

I want to compare two version of compiled/linked software, where the only changes are the values of two constants. But when I perform a binary compare, the results show thousands of differences, rat...
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14 years ago

It depends on how and where those constants were used, but they could also have triggered different optimisations from the compiler, resulting in very different code.