Theoretically, you should be able to compile a bit-identical release. Practically, you won't. (Or at least, I'd be very surprised) Re-creating bit-identical co

Theoretically, you should be able to compile a bit-identical release. Practically, you won't. (Or at least, I'd be very surprised) Re-creating bit-identical copies is hard when you _try_ to make it happen for your project, and I can't see any active efforts for that in most OSS projects. Timestamps in .o/.lib files, use of system libraries, optimization heuristics, exact versions of the entire toolchain, and many more "fun" issues prevent that from happening, usually.