I like Nate's date.cc idea... basically that says whenever you build a binary, stick the current info in, but just because the info has changed that's not sufficient reason to consider the binary out of date. That's the same policy we use wrt the date and time.
Steve On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Lisa Hsu <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't object to making it a personal patch, but if it's not hard to put it > back without the negative characteristics, then I say it's good to put back, > for exactly the reason Tom says. That's pretty much how I used it - "these > results say what? ohhhh....wrong patch applied when making the binary." > > Lisa > > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 10:09 AM, Thomas Wenisch <[email protected]> wrote: > >> FWIW, I have found it to be very valuable to have a repository revision >> number in simulation outputs. Weeks later, when you try to figure out which >> crazy version of the code generated some random set of results, it can be >> extremely helpful for tracking things down. >> >> I would be a fan of fixing this with a compile-time option that is off by >> default as Nate suggests. >> >> Regards, >> -Thomas Wenisch >> >> On Jun 22, 2011, at 1:03 PM, nathan binkert wrote: >> >> >> Annoying, I responded to this yesterday with the wrong account and got a >> >> list rejection that I didn't notice until now. >> >> >> >> Anyhow, thanks - I'll just make my own personal patch to get it back, I >> can >> >> see how extra regressions would be annoying. >> > >> > If you (and others) like it, it could be a compile time option. We >> > could probably also fix it if we handled it more like date.cc is >> > handled. That shouldn't be too hard. >> > >> > Nate >> > _______________________________________________ >> > gem5-dev mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev >> >> _______________________________________________ >> gem5-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev >> >> > _______________________________________________ > gem5-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev > _______________________________________________ gem5-dev mailing list [email protected] http://m5sim.org/mailman/listinfo/gem5-dev
