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From: Petr Ovtchenkov <ptr@void-ptr.info>
To: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>, binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] ld: Add random filling for unspecified section contents
Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 07:24:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170516102411.191a1d1a@void-ptr.info> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8dba78f6-c0ba-918f-3ae9-94092e787433@redhat.com>

Good day,

On Mon, 15 May 2017 17:43:00 +0100
Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:

> 
> > 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.

Reproducible pseudo-random filling? Hmm, is any sense in this?


WBR,

--

   - Petr

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-16  7:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-14 22:40 Andrew Burgess
2017-04-20 13:43 ` Nick Clifton
2017-04-26  9:26   ` Andrew Burgess
2017-05-05  9:39     ` Nick Clifton
2017-05-09 16:36       ` Andrew Burgess
2017-05-15 15:58         ` Petr Ovtchenkov
2017-05-15 16:43           ` Nick Clifton
2017-05-16  7:24             ` Petr Ovtchenkov [this message]
2017-05-17 15:48               ` Andrew Burgess

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