Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!news-out.readnews.com!news-xxxfer.readnews.com!news.misty.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: "Nils M Holm" Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: Tripe test failure update Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 10:30:35 +0200 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 17 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-05-014@comp.compilers> References: <14-05-003@comp.compilers> <14-05-010@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1399321056 94563 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (5 May 2014 20:17:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 20:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: debug, comment Posted-Date: 05 May 2014 16:17:36 EDT X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1239 John wrote: > [When you compared the individual object files that the assembler > genereated, what did you find? -John] I do not have a 64-bit Linux machine for testing, but someone who tried the compiler wrote me in an e-mail that the object files are identical on his system and still the executables differ. Yes, I know about time stamps, but have only once actually seen them in the wild, in the COFF linker of Coherent. And anyway, a timestamp would cause one single difference of a few bytes and not in the text segment, wouldn't it? -- Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > www.t3x.org [Yes, that's right. From what you've said, it sounds like modules were linked in a different order. -John]