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

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 06:39:44PM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> No.  This is strictly an issue of seeding gcc's random number generator 
> during the compile... the binary produced with this flag has a 1 in 2^32 
> chance of being produced randomly at present.  (Or maybe 1 in 2^64 on
> applicable systems, I can't remember.)

I like this idea. Binary upgrade snapshots for sizable things like base
system C++ compilers considered good.

Thanks again to kan@ for fixing c++filt and helping my team at work, btw.

BMS