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by stcg 968 days ago
The difference in binaries must be caused by some runtime difference of a compiler.
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That's right, look at this thread for example:

https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20...

The Global Value Numbering pass in LLVM was iterating over `DenseMap<BasicBlock*, ...>`, so the iteration order was dependent on the value of BasicBlock pointers. This could lead to the same source files and compiler producing different binaries.