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Re: [PATCH] Facilitate deterministic pe executables between linker invocations
- From: Cory Fields <cory at coryfields dot com>
- To: nick clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:54:52 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Facilitate deterministic pe executables between linker invocations
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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 11:48 AM, nick clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> Hi Cory,
>
> Sorry - my bad - I meant to send you a reply yesterday...
>
No worries. I don't make a habit of quick bumps. Many thanks for the
quick response this time.
>>> mingw's coff timestamp is set to an arbitrary number, to match the
>>>
>>> standard behavior of ld.
>
>
> OK. Presumable an arbitary value of zero is suitable ?
>
Will verify.
>
>>> A --use-real-timestamp (or so, maybe
>>> random-seed to match gcc?) is introduced to mimic the previous
>>> behavior if desired.
>
>
> I would prefer not to have completely random values, since they would be of
> no use whatsoever. A real timestamp should be fine.
>
> So, yes, please do go ahead and post the patch for this change. I do not
> anticipate there being any real problems with it...
Great, I'll send it along when I can get to it. Should be in the next few hours.
Regards,
Cory
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
>