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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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