From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 01:13:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 01:13:40 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:7180 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 1 Nov 2000 01:13:28 -0500 Message-ID: <39FFB429.FA0B58CC@transmeta.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:11:53 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test10-pre3 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Peter Samuelson CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: test10-pre7 In-Reply-To: <39FF0A71.FE05FAEB@gromco.com> <8tn5q9$iu5$1@cesium.transmeta.com> <20001031211506.E1041@wire.cadcamlab.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Peter Samuelson wrote: > > To Keith, Michael and me, the cleanest way to remove duplicates is > $(sort). Since some object files must *not* be sorted, we came up with > a simple, readable way to declare that certain things had to come in a > certain order -- the idea being that most of the time it would not be > needed. Linus disagrees that our solution is simple, readable or > otherwise desirable. That's basically the whole issue in a nutshell. > I would tend to agree with Linus on that. If that's truly what you're doing, it would be rather nonobvious. But the question, perhaps, is when does ordering matter. I'm a little concerned about things highly dependent on link ordering. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/