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Den 15/11/2010 kl. 00.10 skrev Dimitry Andric:

> On 2010-11-14 23:29, Erik Cederstrand wrote:
>> 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.
>>=20
> [...]
> So this is all on purpose, and I think it would be a bad idea to =
disable
> it, unless we fully understand the consequences.
>=20
> On the other hand, the requirement "The string should be different for
> every file you compile", could possibly be fulfilled.  Maybe by using
> the filename, relative to $SRCDIR, that is being compiled as "seed"?
>=20
> This would be unique for each compiled file, but still give the same
> result for each build, and also be independent of the particular =
machine
> you are building on.

I was thinking of something along the same lines. I think we agree that =
it only needs to be random across files, not across builds. Someone on =
llvm-dev also suggested using the path (either full or relative to src/) =
as a seed.

Where in the build scripts would I need to add this flag? Something =
like:

CXXFLAGS +=3D -frandom-seed=3D${.TARGET}

in src.conf?

Thanks,
Erik=

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