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Re:Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019) by skissane on Friday August 28, 2020 @08:47PM (#24312189)
Once upon a time, Oracle used Intel C Compiler (ICC) to compile Oracle RDBMS on some platforms [1].

I don't know if Oracle is still using ICC for that or not. (If you download Oracle RDBMS, and check the binaries, you will be able to work it out. I can't be bothered.)

[1] https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20030507005238/en/Ora...

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Re:Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019) by thomasjudge on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:32PM (#24313181)
How can you tell from a binary what compile was used to produce it?
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Re:Intel's “cripple AMD” function (2019) by skissane on Saturday August 29, 2020 @12:03AM (#24313371)
There can be various traces left in strings, the symbol table, etc

Many compilers statically link implementations of various built-in functions into the resulting executable, and that can result in different symbol table entries

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