Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border4.nntp.dca.giganews.com!backlog4.nntp.dca3.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: mrs@Kithrup.COM (Mike Stump) Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Mysterious triple test failures Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 04:47:18 GMT Organization: Kithrup Enterprises, Ld. Lines: 13 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-05-005@comp.compilers> References: <14-05-003@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1399231732 16388 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (4 May 2014 19:28:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 May 2014 19:28:52 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: errors Posted-Date: 04 May 2014 15:28:52 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com X-Original-Bytes: 1571 Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1230 In article <14-05-003@comp.compilers>, Nils M Holm wrote: >Now it has happened that this test failed, resulting in stage-1 >and stage-2 compiler of identical size, but with tens of thousands >of differences. However, both compilers seem to work fine. The >differences are not in the symbol table, stripping the binaries >did not make any difference. objdump -s, onjdump -d, objdump -h are your friends... You can do dumps and compare those outputs... Also, for production comparisons, come over to gcc (gcc.gnu.org) land, we have comparisons methods that work across lots of machines and can deal with things like embedded file time stamps and the like.