[Interest] Qt Resource Compiler - why does it randomize the order of items?

[André Pönitz]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 01:53:58PM +0100, Richard Moore wrote:
> On 19 May 2014 09:18, Ola Røer Thorsen <ola at silentwings.no> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > If I call rcc (the Qt Resource Compiler) twice using the exact same input,
> > the resulting .cpp files are never exactly the same. They are all
> > completely valid, just the ordering of "items" inside is different. I'm
> > just curious, why?
> >
> >
> It's due to the hash randomisation. This was done to avoid DoS attacks that
> can be performed by  tweaking data to ensure it always falls into the same
> hash bucket.

Do we think this is useful to have for the specific case of rcc, or,
rather, that this outweighs the benefits of reproducible build results?

Andre'