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[PATCH] Restore timestamp field of PE executables for compatibility

From: "Linda Zhang" <lindasc at qq dot com>
To: "binutils" <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 02:29:39 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] Restore timestamp field of PE executables for compatibility
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Hello all,

Since nobody replied Bug 16887 for a month,
I'm submitting this patch with the goal of starting a new discussion.

The reason is already explained in the bug. It's unreasonable to make it
default, because it will produce tons of ill-timestamped PE binaries which
can produce unexpected crashes. So I changed the default behaviour to insert
timestamp, and added a new option --strip-timestamp to make deterministic
binaries, and removed the old option --insert-timestamp.

Regards,
Linda Zhang

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