On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Martin Uecker <uec...@eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > 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?
Sure it is. > Also it seems there is other stuff which is output/indexed > in hash table order, maybe this should be changed to. Maybe. Richard. > Martin >
