Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order

Richard Henderson
2003-05-09T06:39:22Z

On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 05:05:26AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> This is absolutely not guarenteed. The linker is at liberty to reorder
> objects in any order it so desires, for performance reasons etc.

Not without some special flag it isn't. WAY TOO MUCH
stuff depends on link order.

In any case, gnu ld DOES NOT reorder sections away from
the order the objects were given on the command line.

r~