DMD producing huge binaries

H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Fri May 20 14:57:25 PDT 2016


On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 02:08:02PM -0700, Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d wrote:
[...]
> 2. having the compiler produce different .o files on different runs
> with the same inputs is pretty eyebrow raising, and makes it harder to
> debug the compiler, and harder to have a test suite for the compiler.

Yeah, I think hashing is the way to go. Random strings just raise more
issues than they solve.


T

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