It's odd that ld.so.cache would be different on identical systems. That's supposed to be an ordered list of libraries found in the directories listed in ld.so.conf file. If you have additional libraries on one system not found on the other, that would explain that. Having additional libraries doesn't by itself explain the behavior at hand if they're libraries not actually used in the test, though.

The initrd file shouldn't be of any consequence after the system is booted and running, as it's used to provide a temporary root file system before the actual root is ready. Again, I'm not sure why identical images would have different versions of this file, but it shouldn't matter. The file could be different because the images were made separately on hardware with different capabilities. It is possible to leave things running from initrd running after the system is loaded, but I doubt Suse does that on a typical installation.

As for other files, I'm at a loss for the moment. I'll let you know if I think of anything, though.

In reply to Re^3: Non-deterministic behaviour with simple array initialization by mr_mischief
in thread Non-deterministic behaviour with simple array initialization by thkarcher

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