[mkgmap-dev] [PATCH v10] make maps in parallel

Tue May 19 10:41:29 BST 2009

On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 10:33:01AM +0100, Mark Burton wrote:
> 
> Further testing shows that you can get different output on subsequent
> runs on the same input (ignoring the time stamps).
> 
> So far, all of the differences appear to be caused by data being output
> in a different order rather than the data itself being different. So, I
> believe that the resulting maps are still good. You should understand
> that the ordering of some of the map's data structures is not important
> as long as all the cross-references match up.

Has anyone written a "lint" program for *.img files that would validate
all the cross-references?  Or a program to pretty-print the data structures
in sorted format?  The sorted pretty-print should be identical across runs.

	Marko