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Re: [RFC] ld: Add random filling for unspecified section contents
- From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
- To: Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr at void-ptr dot info>, Andrew Burgess <andrew dot burgess at embecosm dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 15 May 2017 17:43:00 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] ld: Add random filling for unspecified section contents
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Hi Petr,
> Do you consider pros/contras for "Add random filling for unspecified section contents",
> in particular with relation to "Reproducible Builds" issue?
Part of the proposal did include a new linker command line option to set
the seed for random number generation, so that reproducible, random
contents would be generated.
Also - the proposal has now been withdrawn, so you do not have to worry
about it getting into the FSF binutils sources.
Cheers
Nick