Bug 14948 - GOLD should support ordering sections as ld does with option '--sort-section'
Summary: GOLD should support ordering sections as ld does with option '--sort-section'
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: binutils
Classification: Unclassified
Component: gold (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
: P2 enhancement
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian Lance Taylor
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Reported: 2012-12-12 10:48 UTC by Serge Pavlov
Modified: 2013-06-06 14:14 UTC (History)
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Test case (978 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2013-01-16 04:38 UTC, Serge Pavlov 		Details
Test case (973 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2013-02-01 08:37 UTC, Serge Pavlov 		Details
Test case (data sections) (974 bytes, application/octet-stream)
2013-02-01 08:42 UTC, Serge Pavlov 		Details
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Description Serge Pavlov 2012-12-12 10:48:45 UTC 
BFD linker supports option '--sort-section=name', which allows sections like .text.hot0001, .text.hot0002 etc to be placed in target executable in alphabetical order. This option has been used by Intel compiler to make function code layout more deterministic.

This feature is important for generated code performance.
Comment 1 Serge Pavlov 2013-01-16 04:38:49 UTC 
Created attachment 6821 [details]
Test case
Comment 2 Serge Pavlov 2013-02-01 08:37:08 UTC 
Created attachment 6841 [details]
Test case

This test case represents another section naming, code sections have names as '.text.hot.NNNNN'.
Comment 3 Serge Pavlov 2013-02-01 08:42:19 UTC 
Created attachment 6842 [details]
Test case (data sections)

A test case for data section ordering.
Comment 4 Alexander Ivchenko 2013-06-06 14:14:43 UTC 
This is fixed with:

http://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2013-05/msg00335.html