Re: Reproducible, precompiled .o files: what say policy+gpl?

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 09:16:17AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:

> The only difference is in *performance*. If there are other differences,
> then there is a bug in one of the two compilers.

First, both of the compilers involved are known to have bugs.

Second, this is not necessarily true.  There are common types of performance
optimisations which can change behaviour by violating assumptions made by
the code.  In this case the bug is not in the compiler but in the input, but
that case loses too.

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 - mdz