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Re: Size of emacs.pdmp changes between successive installs


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: Size of emacs.pdmp changes between successive installs
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:16:39 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux)

On Nov 19 2019, Ulrich Mueller wrote:

> For two successive installs from a clean checkout of the same git
> commit, emacs.pdmp ends up having slightly different size:
>
> $ stat -c %s /usr/libexec/emacs/27.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp
> 10563744
>
> $ stat -c %s /usr/libexec/emacs/27.0.50/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/emacs.pdmp
> 10563728
>
> Why is that so? Shouldn't it be deterministic?

Try disabling ASLR.  That doesn't make it completely reproducible,
though.

Andreas.

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