BOOT_CFLAGS and -fomit-frame-pointer

Greg Schafer gschafer@zip.com.au
Fri Mar 25 14:06:00 GMT 2005


On Fri, Mar 25, 2005 at 12:06:33PM +0100, Eric Botcazou wrote:

> What is wrong exactly?  Why should 2 different build processes generate the 
> same executable?  Is there a (written) rule about this?

No, there is no written rule. However, some folks (like me) are concerned
with matters of binary reproducibility, and this subtle change in x86 GCC's
default behaviour seemed a little suspect (to me at least). Like I said, no
big deal. If noone else thinks it's a problem, don't worry.

Regards
Greg



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