[M3devel] compiler switch "reduce target variation"?

Hendrik Boom hendrik at topoi.pooq.com
Tue Jul 4 16:52:08 CEST 2017


On Tue, Jul 04, 2017 at 06:34:03AM +0000, Jay K wrote:
> Trying to resume work here..
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> Here, I've commited this to a branch:
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> https://github.com/modula3/cm3/commit/0d59546d11641afe3772b73f226c2e90b960d7fc
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> There are some unrelated changes I will tease out and commit separately.
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> I still believe we should implement this.
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> It is a variation of what people call "deterministic builds".
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Whn the source code explicitly uses features whose whole purpose is to 
vary between builds, then it's quite reasonable for the object code to 
vary, even if one asks for a deterministic build.

-- hendrik


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