[PATCH] Facilitate deterministic pe executables between linker invocations

[Cory Fields]

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
>
>