output order of input sections not named in linker script

Roland McGrath roland@frob.com
Mon Jul 12 22:29:00 GMT 1999


> I don't know.  I'm certainly open to the possibility that the linker
> behaviour should be changed.  The current behaviour is meant to
> implement reasonable defaults.  This is useful for ELF, because code
> like glibc uses lots of random section names which do not occur in
> typical linker scripts.

I don't have a problem with the current behavior, and I am happy with the
specification being placement according to section attributes with no
reliable ordering within that.  I was just trying to figure out what the
guarantee (or lack thereof) in fact is, and bring up the apparent
documentation inconsistency.


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