John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > And a hell of a lot of work. You can't just create checksums of the > > resulting binaries and compare those; it's not as if any difference > > between the two compiled binaries would constitute an error... > > The idea is to cross-compile and native-compile _for_ _the_ _same_ _target_ > _architecture_ and then compare the binaries. I don't see why they should > differ.
A compiler is allowed to generate any machine code that correctly does what the source program does. But there are many such machine code programs possible (bajillions, in fact), and a compiler can generate any one of them. There is no reason to think that two successive versions of the same compiler, let alone different compilers, would produce the same machine code. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
