The introduction of tree addresses in debugging dumps has caused
most lines of debugging dumps to differ.
What we had before was that ordinary dumps produced with the same input &
options by compilers produced in different stages of a bootstrap were
reasonably diffable; Slightly different compilations where generally reasonably
diffable
with -fdump-unnumbered
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Summary: dumped addresses makes diffing dumps unusable
Product: gcc
Version: 4.2.0
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: other
AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
ReportedBy: amylaar at gcc dot gnu dot org
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28251