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From: | Nick Clifton |
Subject: | Re: [Bug ld/6430] --sort-common Not Implemented Per Documentation |
Date: | Tue, 22 Apr 2008 15:44:55 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (X11/20080213) |
Hi Guys,
You are correct in that this way a gap would be avoided when the size changes. But given that all like-sized symbols are laid out back to back, this onlyhappens when the size changes. So, either the manual must be changed or the code. I, for one, would rather have the code changed...
But this might break existing applications which rely upon the current behaviour. Better I feel would be to fix the documentation and then provide a extended version of the --sort-common switch which takes an argument which specifies the direction of the sorting. eg:
--sort-common=biggest-first [this would be the default] --sort-common=smallest-first Cheers Nick
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