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There used to be a lot more information in binaries in general. These days everything is stripped. Giving my age away here :)
by jmcnulty 5y ago
There used to be a lot more information in binaries in general. These days everything is stripped. Giving my age away here :)
- userbinator 5y agoYour comment indicates you didn't experience the era where binaries had nothing more than the machine instructions and data necessary to execute. If anything, I think binaries now are more bloated than ever.
- drdaeman 5y agoI remember different. It used to be controversial when compilers of old had embedded some identifiers into the binaries they produced - like the infamous MSVC-added "Rich" header or I think Borland compilers used to have something like that too. Some people used to strip or blank out all sort of identifiers for various reasons (IIRC, primarily to complicate analysis with automated tools).