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Re:Bflat – a single ahead of time crosscompiler and runtime ... by viraptor on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:23AM (#34228428)
I've noticed the flag "--deterministic" but couldn't find an explanation. What are the reason someone wouldn't want a deterministic build from this?
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Re:Bflat – a single ahead of time crosscompiler and runtime ... by MStrehovsky on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @01:42AM (#34228536)
Some executable file formats have time stamps in them.

bflat follows the platform convention that respects this and writes current date/time in the file header by default.

It is also a platform convention to offer options to set these to something stable (e.g. `/Brepro` on lld-link, or `--deterministic` for bflat) if one wants stable output.

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