[ILUG] Confirming versions

[Mark Fallon]

Hi,

I am trying to find a way to identify object files so that I can check
that all the objects in one archive(library) have the same version.

I have looked at using the rcsid tags and ident put these get stripped
out by the compiler when I use any level of optimisation. Is there any
way of doing this automatically, and it must be portable so #pragma's
is not the way to go.

I have seen the suggestion in the ident man pages about changing the
final return statement , to try and force the symbol to be used but this
is
not suitable for my requirements and is a really ugly solution.

Regards,

Mark