[Flac-dev] Win32 and ELF created files are different

[Josh Coalson]

http://flac.sourceforge.net/faq.html#tools__different_sizes

one example of variations: whether binary was compiled w/sse
support or not (affects computation of lpc coefficients)

--- On Tue, 2/9/10, Djeizon Barros <djzn.br at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I was fiddling with FLAC executable on Linux and also
> making FLAC files with foobar2000 under WINE. I was using
> the same exact options for both linux native executable and
> flac.exe through foobar2000. But I have noticed something:
> The FLAC files themselves created from flac.exe and
> flac(ELF) are not bit identical. They differ in something
> (Not audio data).
> 
> Looking at this, I used a Windows native installation to
> check about this and confirmed that the flac.exe in Windows
> is also creating a file that differs a little than the flac
> ELF. At first glance I compared the metadata and it seemed
> that metaflac returned different stream_offsets from the
> seektable, comparing the same music file created with
> flac-win and flac-lin. Then I removed entirely both their
> tags & padding, but they still are different. 
> 
> Is this normal? Music data is absolutely untouched,
> however, can this be an architecture difference between the
> compilers that made the Win32 and ELF executables? Just for
> the record, what is exactly making the files different?