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

[Alan Modra]

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.

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM