On Friday, 21 September 2018 at 07:19:41 UTC, mate wrote:
Reproducible builds are out too, as the produced object file
is no longer purely a function of the source code and compiler
version.
It depends on the developer not doing anything stupid in the
build instructions, be it compiler-executed or not. Doesn’t it?
I realize that with build instructions written in unrestricted
language it is easier to create a dependency on something else
than the compiler, such as the OS. Maybe they plan to solve this
problem with appropriate facilities and discipline.
With standard build systems, the produced object file can depend
on some specific state of the OS too (I think there were Windows
updates influencing how VisualStudio was producing object files).
