David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (someone else wrote) >> There are two libraries of a type TXTLIB, which have the same >> sections. >> Some sections in one library can differ from the same >> sections in other library. >> How it is possible to compare libraries on sections?
>The TXTLIB MAP will give you information about the members of the library, >but TXTLIBs contain object code, which is not human readable, so I'm not >sure what useful value this would give you other than external symbol lists. >Same with LOADLIBs -- all you'll get is lists of the modules in the library >and their external attributes. Comparing the code records isn't going to >tell you anything useful. Sometimes it is enough to know that one object file is the same or different from another. That is complicated by compilers that put the compilation date and time, or some other data that changes between compilations of the same source. Most likely they should be compared member by member, though, and not a compare of the entire TXTLIB. -- glen
