Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 21:21:46 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: peter@freebsd.org, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: CVS-commiters@freebsd.org, cvs-usrbin@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/symorder symorder.c Message-ID: <199510301021.VAA18175@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> This is a pretty crude fix - I've changed symorder so that when >> running in "cleanup" mode, it disables the reordering which was >> screwing up the relocation table. I'm sure there is a better fix, but >> I didn't have the energy. Feel free to fix this hack, probably by >> renumbering the symbol indexes in the relocation table. >This is perfectly sensible. The order of symbols in a .o is completely >insignificant. And you don't want to remove any because they should be used for debugging. `symorder' is not a good name for a utility that manipulates symbol types. Even `strip' would be better. I'd like to nuke symorder because it has a Net/2 copyright. Bruce
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