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Yeah, I'm confused about this as well.

One of the standard tests of compilers is generally that they bootstrap, compile themselves with bootstrap, compile themselves with themselves, compile themselves with themselves again, and finally compare the binaries. Any differences at that point are considered to be a bug.

Dynamic linking seems to be at odds with this.



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