Package: diffoscope Version: 90 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
In some cases, otool can fail with: can't create x86_64 llvm disassembler (where x86_64 may be another platform, and where the message is usually preceded by the file path name and "(__TEXT,__text) section", well, in fact, anything that would normally come before the disassembly for the given command line) "Sensibly", it does print that on stdout, and quits with exit code 0. Which means when you're comparing two binaries that have assembly differences, the otool output is identical and non-failing, from diffoscope's perspective, meaning it goes on to the fallback "No file format specific differences found inside, yet data differs", which then goes on to do a diff on a hexdump. When the llvm disassembler fails for some reason, one can use the -Q option to otool to make it use its internal disassembler, which is better than nothing. Mike _______________________________________________ Reproducible-builds mailing list Reproducible-builds@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/reproducible-builds
