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Is it practical to make diffs of recompiled binaries? Don't you need to compile to position independent code? Or otherwise make sure that most of the code's pos
by jstimpfle 10y ago
Is it practical to make diffs of recompiled binaries? Don't you need to compile to position independent code? Or otherwise make sure that most of the code's position does not change when some statically linked library changes?
- jdc0589 10y agoSlightly different comparison, but I remember some google project to do this for shipping updates a while ago. Must have been for android, but I can't remember.
- infogulch 10y agoChrome, actually. Called Courgette [1]. This would actually be really awesome to apply to statically-linked distro updates. [1]: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/software-updates-courgette https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/softwar...