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

[Martin Liška]

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?
Thanks,
Martin

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