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Re: [vms/committed]: set linktime

From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
To: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
Cc: binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:43:08 +0200
Subject: Re: [vms/committed]: set linktime
References: <B3C30D7E-C405-41B4-B726-361C401B4A6C@adacore.com> <4C24DE73.8090200@redhat.com>

On Jun 25, 2010, at 6:50 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:

> On 06/25/2010 07:54 AM, Tristan Gingold wrote:
>> 	* vms-alpha.c (alpha_vms_write_exec): Set linktime field.
> 
> Is this really required?  We've historically ignored these
> fields so that we can have 100% reproducible binaries...

Yes, this is the drawback. But having this field set also avoids some junk outputs.

There is already a flag BFD_DETERMINISTIC_OUTPUT that could be used to force 100%
reproducible binarie.  AFAIK it is only set by ar, but it shouldn't be hard for ld to
use it too.  I will add this to my work-list.

Tristan.

References:
- [vms/committed]: set linktime
  - From: Tristan Gingold
- Re: [vms/committed]: set linktime
  - From: Richard Henderson

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