Alex Vinokur wrote: > However those files contain neither compiler name nor compiler version. > It seems to be worth including something like "gcc version 3.3.1 (cygming special)" > in executables.
There's no standard place in the PE header (in the object files) for this sort of information. Besides, the compiler information would have to be per-".o", not per-".exe", since you can generally mix and match .o's from different compilers (provided they generate code with the same calling conventions and structure layouts) when linking a .exe. Even if there were a convention for inserting this kind of information (say, a special .info or .compiler section in the .o file), the executable would end up with hundreds of these strings for any moderately-sized program, and the information would be, at best, confusing and only mildly interesting.. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
