Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 18:28:44 -0800 From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org> To: Colin Percival <colin.percival@wadham.ox.ac.uk> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: Building libstdc++ with -frandom-seed=RepeatabilityConsideredGood Message-ID: <20041110022844.GC3114@empiric.icir.org> In-Reply-To: <41910EF0.4060402@wadham.ox.ac.uk> References: <41900FE6.1060602@wadham.ox.ac.uk> <200411081809.37894.peter@wemm.org> <41910EF0.4060402@wadham.ox.ac.uk>
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:39:44PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote: > No. This is strictly an issue of seeding gcc's random number generator > during the compile... the binary produced with this flag has a 1 in 2^32 > chance of being produced randomly at present. (Or maybe 1 in 2^64 on > applicable systems, I can't remember.) I like this idea. Binary upgrade snapshots for sizable things like base system C++ compilers considered good. Thanks again to kan@ for fixing c++filt and helping my team at work, btw. BMS
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