On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:58 AM, Martin Uecker <uec...@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > Hi list, > > the strings in the ".debug_str" section are output > in an arbitrary order. Could this be changed? > > The function 'output_indirect_strings' in 'gcc/dwarf2out.c' > uses htab_traverse which then outputs the string in the > order they appear in the hash table. Instead, it would > be nicer to output them based on their labels (which are > assigned based on the order of creation). > > This would minimize differences between builds with > slightly different build environments, e.g. directory.
Can you propose a patch? Note that at creation time only the string itself is known, so sorting after the string may be another possibility. Richard.
