VS2012, yet another rant.

NTDEV
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> So one could just print the PE timestamp (getting it thru, er, a simple

but undocumented trick).
That will work even if you don’t recompile the .c file that contains
SourceCppIdentify.

Do you mean __ImageBase?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25771/output-compile-time-stamp-in-visual-c-executable

There is also TIMESTAMP – if that isn’t also broken – but it is
just file date not build date.

At least you didn’t get used to C99 function directives, MSC never
properly handled those. :slight_smile:

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TIMESTAMP is in the same gulag as TIME and DATE.

Mark Roddy

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 8:01 PM, Lee Fisher wrote:

>
> So one could just print the PE timestamp (getting it thru, er, a simple
>> but undocumented trick).
>> That will work even if you don’t recompile the .c file that contains
>> SourceCppIdentify.
>>
>
> Do you mean ImageBase?
> http://stackoverflow.com/ questions/25771/output-
> compile-time-stamp-in-visual-**c-executablehttp:
>
> There is also TIMESTAMP__ – if that isn’t also broken – but it is just
> file date not build date.
>
> At least you didn’t get used to C99 function directives, MSC never
> properly handled those. :slight_smile:
>
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“Lee Fisher” wrote in message news:xxxxx@ntdev…
>
>> So one could just print the PE timestamp (getting it thru, er, a simple
>> but undocumented trick).
>> That will work even if you don’t recompile the .c file that contains
>> SourceCppIdentify.
>
> Do you mean __ImageBase?
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25771/output-compile-time-stamp-in-visual-c-executable

Yes.
– pa