"Crumrine, Ray" <Ray.Crumrine@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I'm trying to find out where in the header of the resulting file that is
> created when gcc runs is the date / time of file creation and what format.
> Can anyone help? I'm assuming it's probably there in some binary format. Any
> help is appreciated.
I'm not sure what you are asking. gcc does not normally put a
timestamp in its output.
You can put code like this:
char const* cp= "Date: " __DATE__;
char const* cp2= "Time: " __TIME__;
in your program, and on most systems you can run strings on the
resulting binary, and see something like this:
$ strings a.out | grep 'Date\|Time'
Date: May 4 2004
Time: 07:04:56
If the output is an archive, and you
have gnu binutils, you can use objdump -a to see the dates the
individual members of the archive were added.
That's all I know about.
