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Re:Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security by Joel_Mckay on Friday May 15, 2026 @08:30PM (#48155652)
Nondeterministic compiled code-motion in llvm means a workaround can't reliably be patched given version permuted bug emergence.

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Re:Welcome to the Strip Mining Era of OSS Security by zephen on Friday May 15, 2026 @10:59PM (#48156450)
It's certainly possible to write optimizations that generate nondeterministic llvm outputs, but the docs explain conditions when that can happen, and warn against it.
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