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Hello toolchainers,

I noticed that two consecutive builds of (GCC-built) Clang don't produce =
identical binaries. This is true for clang, clang++ and tblgen. I asked =
on the llvm-dev list yesterday, and it turns out it's because GCC uses a =
random seed on some symbols. Apparently, this can be controlled with the =
-frandom-seed flag. I haven't tested if this is also the case for =
Clang-built Clang.

I'm not sure I understand the exact implications, but I'm wondering if =
we could add the flag to the build scripts in FreeBSD in a way that both =
satisfies the randomness criteria and makes builds deterministic?

Thanks,
Erik=

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