Ian Lance Taylor writes: > 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. John Gilmore, right? IIRC he left Cygnus shortly before I joined. And that was quite a long time ago. :-) That'll teach me not to use the word "never"! Cheers, Andrew.
