------- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-04-22 14:45 ------- Subject: Re: --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation
Hi Guys, > You are correct in that this way a gap would be avoided when the size > changes. > But given that all like-sized symbols are laid out back to back, this only > happens when the size changes. > > So, either the manual must be changed or the code. I, for one, would rather > have the code changed... But this might break existing applications which rely upon the current behaviour. Better I feel would be to fix the documentation and then provide a extended version of the --sort-common switch which takes an argument which specifies the direction of the sorting. eg: --sort-common=biggest-first [this would be the default] --sort-common=smallest-first Cheers Nick -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6430 ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is. _______________________________________________ bug-binutils mailing list bug-binutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-binutils
