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Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> writes:

> heavy time&money investment to certify that the binaries [...] have
> not changed

I was approached by an ex-colleague to help him understand why builds of
the same source code with the same compiler (GNAT 3.16a1, Windows x
VxWorks) didn't always produce the same executable. I couldn't (not at a
distance, anyway).

That's the sort of circumstance in which one really regrets not keeping
the support contract up!