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Re:Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite by Luker88 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:12AM (#23417665)
No experience here, but from the manpage:

-frandom-seed=string

  This option provides a seed that GCC uses in place of random numbers in generating certain symbol names that have to be different in every compiled file.  It is also used to place unique stamps in coverage data files and the object files that produce them.  You can use the -frandom-seed option to produce reproducibly identical object files.
though my example/guess on branch prediction is probably wrong
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Re:Clang-11.0.0 Miscompiled SQLite by tom_mellior on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:05PM (#23418382)
Ah, thanks. Looks like this only applies to symbol names, so the generated executable code should be deterministic, only symbol table entries might differ.
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