[PATCH v4 0/5] Add support for CRC64 generation in linker

Ulf Samuelsson binutils@emagii.com
Tue Feb 21 13:30:21 GMT 2023


>
> I am going to post some individual reviews of the patches as well, but I
> wanted to give my overall impressions here.
>
> Cheers
>   Nick
>
> [1] Well except for TIMESTAMP and DEBUG ON/OFF which are valid new
> features in their own rights.
>
One issue with the TIMESTAMP is of course that the output changes
the timestamp value every time you link the code.

You cannot do a static compare on the result.

One way to test it is to build it twice, extract the timestamp value of both
and check that is has increased with a reasonable amount.

Best Regards
Ulf Samuelsson






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