RFC: Building libstdc++ with -frandom-seed=RepeatabilityConsideredGood

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:31:34AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> I would like to add the following line to lib/libstdc++/Makefile:
> 
> CFLAGS+=	-frandom-seed=RepeatabilityConsideredGood
> 
> This is a new option in gcc 3.4 which allows a string to be specified
> (in this case, the string "RepeatabilityConsideredGood") which will be
> used as a random number seed in place of the usual behaviour (obtaining
> a seed from the clock).

Why does libstdc++ think it needs randomness in its' build?  i.e. what
is the impact of making it not random?

Kris
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