Re: Elf .file symbols in reverse order

[Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 02:03:36PM +0000, Paulo J. Matos wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 08:27:39 +1030, Alan Modra wrote:
> 
> > Reversing file symbol order may just be an accident, caused by inserting
> > a new file symbol at the head of the symbol list.  gas has done this
> > since rev 1.1 of the FSF sources.
> 
> Hummm, I see. I guess you're talking about symbol_rootP from symbols.h. 

Yes.

> Do you see any immediate problem with doing the reverse... inserting at 
> the end, instead of the beginning to maintain the order of the definition?

I have a vague recollection of trying a patch that put file symbols in
order by scanning forward until a non-file symbol was found then
inserting.  I can't remember why that failed.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM