Re: [PATCH] Introduce new .text.sorted.* sections.

[Martin Liška <mliska at suse dot cz>]

On 11/4/19 2:54 PM, Martin Liška wrote:
> @Ian, @Cary: May I please ping the gold part?

PING^2

Thanks,
Martin

> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> On 9/27/19 9:48 AM, Alan Modra wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 26, 2019 at 10:48:12AM +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
> > > On 9/25/19 3:34 PM, Alan Modra wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 02:05:09PM +0200, Martin Liška wrote:
> > > > > Hi.
> > > > >
> > > > > Aim of the patch is to introduce a new .text subsection that
> > > > > will be sorted by default. That can be leveraged in LTO where we
> > > > > want to provide a specific sorting of symbols in a binary.
> > > >
> > > > This looks fine to me, even though the gold implementation can produce
> > > > different results on input sections that match ".text.sorted.*".  For
> > > > example, ".text.sorted.1" will be accepted by both ld.gold and ld.bfd,
> > > > but ld.bfd will sort it after ".text.sorted.02" while ld.gold would
> > > > sort it before.
> > >
> > > Hi.
> > >
> > > You are right, it's not precisely 1:1 among ld.bfd and ld.gold. I guess
> > > we can live with that.
> > >
> > > May I take this as an approval to install the patch?
> >
> > I can OK the ld.bfd changes, I'm not so sure about gold patches.  Cary
> > and Ian are the ones with that authority.