[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-05-31 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-31 16:31 --- Created an attachment (id=2769) -- (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2769action=view) Add test of --sort-common command line option -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6430

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-05-31 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-31 16:34 --- Hi Evandro, Thanks for the patch. I have applied it together with the changelog entry below. Plus I added a line about it to the ld/NEWS file, and I created a linker testsuite test for it so that we can be

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-05-21 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- Additional Comments From nickc at redhat dot com 2008-05-21 11:00 --- Hi Evandro, Right - I have checked in your documentation patch. (Sorry about the delay in getting to this). Do you have a patch to implement the new user-choice-of-sorting algorithm, or is there really no

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-05-01 Thread evandro at yahoo dot com
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-05-01 23:23 --- Created an attachment (id=2720) -- (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2720action=view) Change the documentation according to the code. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6430

Re: [Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-04-22 Thread Nick Clifton
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

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-04-22 Thread nickc at redhat dot com
--- 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

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-04-22 Thread evandro at yahoo dot com
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-04-22 16:56 --- As a matter of fact, the current implementation actually sorts by alignment. I like Nick's suggestion, only I prefer terser wording, such as ascending or descending. But that's me. --

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-04-22 Thread hjl dot tools at gmail dot com
--- Additional Comments From hjl dot tools at gmail dot com 2008-04-22 17:17 --- (In reply to comment #8) As a matter of fact, the current implementation actually sorts by alignment. I like Nick's suggestion, only I prefer terser wording, such as ascending or descending. But

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-04-21 Thread evandro at yahoo dot com
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-04-22 01:05 --- 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

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-04-20 Thread evandro at yahoo dot com
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-04-20 18:21 --- Sure, but I'll be hitting the road this week. Later on then. -- http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6430 --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are on the CC list for the bug,

[Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation

2008-04-17 Thread evandro at yahoo dot com
--- Additional Comments From evandro at yahoo dot com 2008-04-17 23:04 --- Created an attachment (id=2707) -- (http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=2707action=view) Patch for correct --sort-common. Either the documentation or the implementation is incorrect. In the latter