Re: [arm-gnu] Compiling Safety Related Systems?

[42Bastian <list-bastian.schick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark

> Of course, rebuilding from source in a way that provides an identical
> binary is very difficult.  We take great pains to automate and control
> our entire build process so that we can in fact reproduce a given build
> many years later, and we demonstrate that capability pretty often.  We
> keep the binaries for all tools used in the build process, and we have
> automated processes that build all of the tools in the package, test
> them, and package them for delivery with no human intervention.  

Very good.

> We also
> enter into long-term support contracts with some customers to guarantee
> support for a given version of GCC for a long period of time.

Ha, even better.

Thank you Mark for the insights.

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