RE: Source/object mis-match

Richard wrote:

>I have been tasked to identify source/object
>mis-matches for a given library.  Other than
>compiling each object in to a temporary library
>and comparing object sizes how might I go
>about identifying mismatches?

I've had no luck trying to do the same thing.  If the program was created on
an earlier release or PTF level, the number of bytes and machine
instructions can change when compiled on the current release.  Likewise,
retrieving the source information doesn't always help when the source gets
moved around (like in a source control environment).

The closest I've been able to get is to retrieve the source information and
compare it to the current source member information (change date/time,) but
it's not much more than an approximation.  This task really requires full
change management audit logs.  Of course, if I had that I wouldn't have to
worry about mismatches (except where the end-user makes changes.)

  --buck