Re: [Tinycc-devel] Regarding Long double Constant

[Ayush Varshney]

> Wouldn't a better solution be to change tcc to clear the padding bytes,
> which would also help it reproducibly build other software?

I do not know as I haven't tried it, but it might be a good direction.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 10:48 PM Elijah Stone <elronnd@elronnd.net> wrote:

On Thu, 11 Feb 2021, Ayush Varshney wrote:

> What I wanted to discuss was in terms of reproducibility of tcc compiler
>
> *snip*
>
> The problem is that tcc’s “long double” uses only 10 bytes, but it is
> stored in 12 bytes, and tcc’s source code does not initialize the extra
> 2 bytes

Wouldn't a better solution be to change tcc to clear the padding bytes,
which would also help it reproducibly build other software?

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