[Bug gas/10374] New: Local/global symbol order in symbol table

[Pierre dot Habraken at imag dot fr]

mips-elf-as puts local symbol after global symbols in symbol table.
ELF specification (TIS) states that all symbols with STB_LOCAL binding should
precede global symbols.
This rule is not enforced by mips-elf-as (compiled from binutils 2.19) :
============================== bug trace ================================
$ cat atest.s
         .global  write
         .text
write:   SW       $3, Z
         JR       $31

         .data
Y:       .word    Z
$ mips-elf-as --version
GNU assembler (GNU Binutils) 2.19.51.20090702
Copyright 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you may redistribute it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.
This program has absolutely no warranty.
This assembler was configured for a target of `mips-elf'.
$ mips-elf-as -o atest.o atest.s
$ mips-elf-readelf -s atest.o

Symbol table '.symtab' contains 9 entries:
   Num:    Value  Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
     0: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND 
     1: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    1 .text
     2: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    3 .data
     3: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    5 .bss
     4: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    6 .reginfo
     5: 00000000     0 SECTION LOCAL  DEFAULT    7 .pdr
     6: 00000000     0 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT    1 write
     7: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND Z
     8: 00000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT    3 Y
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           Summary: Local/global symbol order in symbol table
           Product: binutils
           Version: 2.19
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: gas
        AssignedTo: unassigned at sources dot redhat dot com
        ReportedBy: Pierre dot Habraken at imag dot fr
                CC: bug-binutils at gnu dot org
  GCC host triplet: i386-linux
GCC target triplet: mips-elf


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10374

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