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by PeterisP 4668 days ago
If I understand your proposal correctly, it would be found out almost immediately, as file checksums would be altered and quite a few places do check them.
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My idea was that, if you have an object file open with write permissions, you can assume that it has been created/modified anyway, and people will expect the checksum to change.

Of course this does not work if the checksum is calculated before the file is closed by your backdoored compiler.