Re: How to identify compilers

David Chase <chase@theworld.com>
5 Feb 2003 23:53:19 -0500

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From: David Chase <chase@theworld.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 5 Feb 2003 23:53:19 -0500
Organization: Little or none
References: 03-01-184
Keywords: practice
Posted-Date: 05 Feb 2003 23:53:19 EST

Robert wrote:

>Did anybody know, if (and how) it's possible to find out with which
>compiler a Windows executable file was compiled.

It is almost certainly possible, but the "how" part that I know is by
looking for idioms in the generated code. I could do this pretty
easily when I worked on compilers for Sparc and looked at a fair
amount of code; someone who has worked on compilers or debuggers for
Pentium could probably do the same.

David

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