[PATCH] Adding diversity for security
Alex Rosenberg
alexr at leftfield.org
Mon Apr 14 12:02:13 PDT 2014
I was referring to the call to AtomicIncrement as a way to get a seed for each thread. The threads aren't guaranteed to enter that code in the same order, so there is no guarantee of determinism for a given seed.
Alex
> On Apr 14, 2014, at 10:41 AM, Julian Lettner <julian.lettner at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> You are referring to the fact that the RNG instance id is part of the seed, right?
> Seeds[2] = InstanceID;
>
> The initial patch had this so I left it in, but indeed this looks strange from the angle of reproducible builds.
> I will remove it.
>
> http://reviews.llvm.org/D1802
>
More information about the llvm-commits
mailing list