[PATCH roland/objcopy-merge-notes-qsort] Fix objcopy --merge-notes dependency on qsort implementation behavior.

Roland McGrath via binutils binutils@sourceware.org
Mon Jan 27 19:19:00 GMT 2020


On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 4:54 AM Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com> wrote:
> It is.  Or at least that is what should happen for an optimal merge.
> It is not an error for the notes not to be merged, it is just a case
> that an opportunity for merging was missed.

Ok.  That's what I thought.  Thanks for the clarification.

> > then some different fix is
> > needed to achieve that and the test suite needs to change its
> > expectations
>
> If you would like to look into this and suggest a patch then please
> do.  Otherwise I will add it to my list of things to do.

I'm not going to work on this, sorry.

> Yes for both - please apply.

Done.

Thanks,
Roland



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