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From: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	rddunlap@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 23:51:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030509065138.GA25054@twiddle.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052395526.23259.0.camel@rth.ninka.net>

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~

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-05-09  6:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-07 13:14 The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order Russell King
2003-05-07 15:18 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-07 15:38   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 15:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 17:14   ` Russell King
2003-05-07 22:04     ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-07 22:28       ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 12:05         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 14:55           ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 14:54             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 16:24               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-08 16:26               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 16:30                 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-11 18:41                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 17:56               ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-08 17:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-09  6:51           ` Richard Henderson [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-08 19:32 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:43 ` Eli Carter
2003-05-08 22:19   ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 23:23   ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-08 23:38 Ray Lee
2003-05-09 12:41 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-09 14:33 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-05-10  7:42 Thomas Hood

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