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From: Michael S. Zick <mszick@goquest.com>
To: Mike Stump <mstump@apple.com>
Subject: Re: GCC 3.3, GCC 3.4
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 16:01:00 -0000
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On Thursday 30 January 2003 07:22 pm, Mike Stump wrote:
>
> I'm trying to envision the documentation:
>
> --please-make-compiler-deterministic
>
> 	Eliminates non-determinism from the compiler.
>
> :-)  It that an -f option, or an -m option?

I think that is a --sol-... option.

But to have any sort of meaningful comparisons between
--version=yesterday and --version=tomorrow
we do need some way to get the "GC noise" out of the
numbers.

Mike