Re: recover -frandom-seed from .rpo file

["Andrew Pinski" <pinskia at gmail dot com>]

On 3/9/07, Alexandre Oliva <aoliva@redhat.com> wrote:
> :ADDPATCH repo:
>
> This is a patch for
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228769
>
> When the instantiation of symbols involving names in anonymous
> namespaces is controlled by -frepo, they will vary from one
> compilation to another.  It's not that linking will endless loop, it's
> that if you compile, link, then recompile the source, the resulting
> .rpo file will use a different seed, which discards all of the useful
> instantiate-here information created by the previous link, and then
> the next linking will take much longer than it could.

I don't think this is true any more in that anonymous namespaces are
hanlded differently in 4.2.0 and above and don't use the seeds
anymore.

Thanks,
Andrew Pinski