[Reproducible-builds] Bug#808207: diffoscope: Filter objdump --disassemble output before diffing it

[Jérémy Bobbio]

Hi Mike!

Mike Hommey:
> When comparing large ELF binaries, some minor differences can end up hurting
> the visibility of more important differences.
> 
> Specifically, objdump --disassemble displays symbols+offsets for addresses
> it derives from IP-relative addressing, like the following:
> 
>    9d2be2:     48 8d 05 42 65 24 02    lea    0x2246542(%rip),%rax        # 2c1912b <_fini@@xul45a1+0x1d803>

I would be grateful if you could try again using the master branch.
Dhole made diffoscope compare ELF sections individually and I wonder how
much it helped with this problem.

If it doesn't, would you be so kind to provide example binaries?

Thanks,
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