Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > That's interesting. As far as I'm aware we have never guaranteed that > gcc/binutils will generate binary reproducible output, but there must > be a reason for any differences. A side comment: we used to guarantee that, and we used it to verify the whole set of > tools along the lines of gcc's bootstrap compare. For example, search for "gnu@xxxxxxxxxx" in bfd/coffcode.h. But we gave up on that a long time ago. Ian