Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 05 Aug 2011 08:11:15 -0700 | From | Richard Henderson <> | Subject | Re: [RFT][patch 17/18] sched: use jump labels to reduce overhead when bandwidth control is inactive |
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On 08/05/2011 01:30 AM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > OK, so _WHY_ does that make a difference and will a next version of > gnu-binutils not mess that up?
The Why is micro-architectual, and I can't answer that.
But ld will never re-order the files as given on the command-line. There are too many functions and tables that are constructed piece-wise from input sections; re-ordering them would change the semantics of the program.
r~
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