Am Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:44:53 +0100 schrieb Richard Biener <richard.guent...@gmail.com>:
> 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. I will propose a patch. Sorting at the end would be easiest, but one could also keep track of the order. Is this performance critical? Also it seems there is other stuff which is output/indexed in hash table order, maybe this should be changed to. Martin
