DMD producing huge binaries

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On Friday, 20 May 2016 at 21:09:23 UTC, cym13 wrote:
> It would make binary comparison of libraries and executables 
> difficult which troubles me as comparing hashes is a basics of 
> binary distribution security : you can check that a precompiled 
> binary is legit by recompiling it in the same conditions and 
> comparing the two. It would be way harder if random components 
> were added.

My recollection is that successively compiled binaries are rarely
directly comparable, because of timestamps embedded by compilers.
So I have to ask:  are there standard tools to understand enough
of the ELF binary format (or whatever, for the given platform) to
compare everything except the timestamps?