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Here is a not-in-depth look at what's involved in trying to generate byte-for byte binaries on msvc:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1180852/deterministic-bui...

In short, if you ignore certain things when comparing binaries and make sure you build things on absolute path of the same length(!), you can tell binaries are functionally equivalent.

Well, the parent poster would say that if binaries depend on the path length of build location, then that's evidence of a FUBAR toolchain :)

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