Basile Starynkevitch <bas...@starynkevitch.net> writes: > I have a similar issue in the MELT branch, and I am passing to -frandom-seed > the md5sum > of relevant source files. With such a trick, the seed is reproducible from > one build to > the next one (of the exact same source tree), and does provide much more > randomness than > just using 0 all the time.
In practice I think it is fine to just pass the source file name to -frandom-seed. That's what the patch I sent out does. The source file name should be unique within a given program. Ian