The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies

I haven’t finished reading the comments, but my immediate question is why should two different compilers produce the same binary? Don’t they mostly all optimize to some extent?

There is of course always Mel’s method.** :wink:

**Do timing by locating instructions on the drum at fast or slow locations relative to the current instruction; use instructions as constants; employ counter overflow as a loop termination device…simple, obvious stuff like that.