[PATCH] llvm-cov: Updated file checksum to be timestamp.

Meador Inge meadori at codesourcery.com
Mon Nov 11 12:48:54 PST 2013


On 11/11/2013 02:13 PM, Sean Silva wrote:

> Yes. In general all tool output must be completely deterministic (a timestamp is
> "nondeterministic" in the sense that it depends on the (nondeterministic) time
> that the tool was built).

There is always our sneaky friends __TIME__, __DATE__, and __TIMESTAMP__ :-)
Incidentally there is a GCC patch just sent out last week [1] to issue a warning
when using those macros: http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2013-11/msg00066.html

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