On 31 August 2017 at 14:03, Lassi Niemistö wrote: > Hello, > > Aiming for a deterministic build, one of the last walls I hit is the LTO (-fwhole-program -flto -fuse-linker-plugin). > > When running > strings < /path/to/binary > for two different build runs and diff them, I get differences like > "ccV3ggwx.ltrans0.o" vs. "cchJIW0p.ltrans0.o" > > Why is the ltrans mangling some names like this? Can I somehow force it deterministic? Does using -frandom-seed=0 help? > I can use link switch -s to strip this information, but if I want to include the debug info, this will not be possible. > > -Lassi N.
