Re: RFC: Building libstdc++ with -frandom-seed=RepeatabilityConsideredGood

From: Kris Kennaway <kris_at_obsecurity.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:40:16 -0800
On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 12:31:34AM +0000, Colin Percival wrote:
> I would like to add the following line to lib/libstdc++/Makefile:
> 
> CFLAGS+=	-frandom-seed=RepeatabilityConsideredGood
> 
> This is a new option in gcc 3.4 which allows a string to be specified
> (in this case, the string "RepeatabilityConsideredGood") which will be
> used as a random number seed in place of the usual behaviour (obtaining
> a seed from the clock).

Why does libstdc++ think it needs randomness in its' build?  i.e. what
is the impact of making it not random?

Kris

Received on Mon Nov 08 2004 - 23:37:19 UTC

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