24 Nov
2020
24 Nov
'20
2:48 a.m.
On Mon, 23 Nov 2020, Joe Perches wrote:
On Tue, 2020-11-24 at 11:58 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
it's not for me to prove that such patches don't affect code generation. That's for the patch author and (unfortunately) for reviewers.
Ideally, that proof would be provided by the compilation system itself and not patch authors nor reviewers nor maintainers.
Unfortunately gcc does not guarantee repeatability or deterministic output. To my knowledge, neither does clang.
Yes, I've said the same thing myself. But having attempted it, I now think this is a hard problem. YMMV.
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