Sorting direction of SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT

nick clifton nickc@redhat.com
Tue Apr 30 12:54:00 GMT 2013


Hi Kwok,

> According to the ld manual (section 3.6.4.2): SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT will
> sort sections into ascending order by alignment before placing them in
> the output file.

This is a mistake in the documentation.  I have checked in the patch 
below to update the manual.

Cheers
   Nick

ld/ChangeLog

2013-04-30  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* ld.texinfo (SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT): Fix and clarify typo - sections
	are sorted by descending order of alignment.

Index: ld/ld.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/ld.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.297
diff -u -3 -p -r1.297 ld.texinfo
--- ld/ld.texinfo	25 Mar 2013 18:09:04 -0000	1.297
+++ ld/ld.texinfo	30 Apr 2013 12:52:41 -0000
@@ -4031,7 +4031,7 @@ into ascending order by name before plac
  @cindex SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT
  @code{SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT} is very similar to @code{SORT_BY_NAME}. The
  difference is @code{SORT_BY_ALIGNMENT} will sort sections into
-ascending order by alignment before placing them in the output file.
+descending order by alignment before placing them in the output file.

  @cindex SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY
  @code{SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY} is very similar to @code{SORT_BY_NAME}. The



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