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		thomasjudge on Aug 29, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019) How can you tell from a binary what compile was used to produce it?

skissane on Aug 29, 2020 [–]

There can be various traces left in strings, the symbol table, etc

Many compilers statically link implementations of various built-in functions into the resulting executable, and that can result in different symbol table entries

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