http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47494
Summary: .MOD files: Consider removing the time stamp
Product: gcc
Version: 4.6.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: fortran
AssignedTo: [email protected]
ReportedBy: [email protected]
At http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2011-01/msg02012.html Simon Baldwin wrote:
Strict build environments do binary comparisons of files across gcc builds.
Writing the current timestamp into a Fortran .mod file leads to false
positives from such environments. Omitting the timestamp removes these
false positives.
That change was in Google's internal GCC - and is now pushed to the Google
branch in SVN.
One should consider to apply the patch also to the trunk
