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Re: Sorting direction of SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k dot org>
To: Kwok Cheung Yeung <kcy at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 13:30:58 +0200
Subject: Re: Sorting direction of SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT
References: <517A3738 dot 7040709 at codesourcery dot com>

Kwok Cheung Yeung <kcy@codesourcery.com> writes:

> So which is correct here - the implementation or the manual?

Looks like a doc bug: you want to sort the biggest aligned items first
to minimize padding.

Andreas.

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