On Wed, 10 Jan 2018 15:12:17 -0500, John Eells wrote: >Whether differently-sized modules are inequal cannot be determined from >size alone when measured on disk (at least) for the reasons I posted >earlier. The same is true of record-based, LOAD-based, and even Binder >API-based binary compares. > >Comparing LOADed modules is also not reliable in the general case for >somewhat different reasons that I mentioned in the same post. In >addition to those reasons, it occured to me that different ordering can >cause different amounts of storage to be consumed to maintain alignment >boundaries (and the owner of the Binder confirms that). > Relink one with ORDER statements to match the other, then compare? Oops! What about anonymous CSECTs?
>(This is *way* harder than it looks at first glance.) > Yup. And even IEBCOPY modifies the FAMS timestamp. As if that mattered. (Am I supposed to know about FAMS timestamps?) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
