Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 31 Oct 2000 22:11:53 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: test10-pre7 |
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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
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