• via Digitalmars-d-bugs (20/20) Aug 29 2015 https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14976

via Digitalmars-d-bugs <digitalmars-d-bugs puremagic.com> writes:

https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14976

          Issue ID: 14976
           Summary: object file output is unstable/different
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P1
         Component: dmd
          Assignee: nobody puremagic.com
          Reporter: code dawg.eu

The order in which undefined symbols are emitted depend on the allocated
address of symbols (which in turn change with ASLR).
This is problematic for testing purposes but also prevents from caching linker
steps.

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd/blob/20771f89a16d9ab663b2964db8d49706cfa0e1dd/src/backend/cgen.c#L501

A solution would be to use a string table instead of AArray.

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