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R0b0t1 on Aug 6, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: You don’t need reproducible builds

Obtaining evidence a compiler probably isn't backdoored is the point.

>There's no way that every compiler would produce the same exact insrtuctions for each respected input.

You don't know this.

pests on Aug 7, 2020 [–]

I do, because I can make a compiler that chooses non standard instructions.

R0b0t1 on Aug 9, 2020 | [–]

Then nobody will use it for reproducible builds. What is your point? Performant compilers for an arch are likely to produce similar code.

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