Update kinds-of-reproducible-builds.md

monperrus · web-flow · commit cf1c6dbf22c8 · 2025-03-12T13:38:34.000+01:00
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 **Functional reproducibility**: Focuses on ensuring that builds produce binaries with identical functionality, even if there are minor, non-functional differences in the output files (like timestamps or build paths). Typically, verifiers apply some kind normalization / canonicalization on the build output to achieve this.
 
+**Compiler reproducibility**: Ensures that building the same source code with different compiler binares produces identical binary outputs, byte-for-byte. This is the essence of [diverse-double compiling](https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/).
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`25`	`25`	`Functional reproducibility: Focuses on ensuring that builds produce binaries with identical functionality, even if there are minor, non-functional differences in the output files (like timestamps or build paths). Typically, verifiers apply some kind normalization / canonicalization on the build output to achieve this.`
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	`27`	`+Compiler reproducibility: Ensures that building the same source code with different compiler binares produces identical binary outputs, byte-for-byte. This is the essence of [diverse-double compiling](https://dwheeler.com/trusting-trust/).`
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