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Re: PATCH RFA: Build stages 2 and 3 with C++

Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net> writes:

> I have a similar issue in the MELT branch, and I am passing to -frandom-seed the md5sum
> of relevant source files. With such a trick, the seed is reproducible from one build to
> the next one (of the exact same source tree), and does provide much more randomness than
> just using 0 all the time.

In practice I think it is fine to just pass the source file name to
-frandom-seed.  That's what the patch I sent out does.  The source file
name should be unique within a given program.

Ian
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