[RFC] ld: Add random filling for unspecified section contents

Petr Ovtchenkov ptr@void-ptr.info
Tue May 16 07:24:00 GMT 2017


Good day,

On Mon, 15 May 2017 17:43:00 +0100
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> > Do you consider pros/contras for "Add random filling for unspecified section contents",
> > in particular with relation to "Reproducible Builds" issue?
> 
> Part of the proposal did include a new linker command line option to set
> the seed for random number generation, so that reproducible, random 
> contents would be generated.

Reproducible pseudo-random filling? Hmm, is any sense in this?


WBR,

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   - Petr



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