From my observations, there seem to have been considerable efforts to avoid it being just random. Compiler & library "optimisations" have broken Linux before ("

From my observations, there seem to have been considerable efforts to avoid it being just random. Compiler & library "optimisations" have broken Linux before ("randomly") [0] [3]. Linus has ranted about this [1], multiple times [2] [3]. [0] https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793253/6ff74ecfb804c410/ https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/793253/6ff74ecfb804c410/ [1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/769 https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/5/769 [2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=638477#c129 [3] http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.3/00650.html http://lkml.iu.edu//hypermail/linux/kernel/1407.3/00650.html