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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
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> I have felt sure to have sorted both: indeed the linker sorts symbols
> *before* it writes down their addresses (and not after). But I could
> have made a mistake, obviously.

I was refering to the address the symbol points to, not the address of
the ksymtab entry. 

-Andi

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