Re: RFC: Sort input section by list

[Eric Christopher <echristo at apple dot com>]

On Aug 26, 2008, at 9:30 AM, H.J. Lu wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:19 AM, Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>  
> wrote:
> > Hi H.J.
> >
> > > > A generic method which will work with currently installed  
> > > > versions of gcc
> > > > and the linker on most linux boxes...
> > > > ...versus a new, untested feature in the linker, in a version of  
> > > > the
> > > > linker
> > > > that has not even been released yet.
> >
> > > All linker features were new, untested at one time. It shouldn't be
> > > the reason not to implement/experiment them.
> >
> > True - but I am trying to avoid feature bloat here.  I do not want  
> > to add a
> > new feature to solve a problem that can already be solved using  
> > existing
> > methods.
>
> As Arjan mentioned, it isn't practical to change so many packages to  
> add
> section attribute. It doesn't scale with number of packages nor  
> updates
> on packages.

FWIW it's a common feature type in a few linkers and quite handy for  
individual
app owners to use...

-eric