Re: [Q] ld: Does LTO reorder ro variables in two files?

[Kirill Tkhai]

On 19.12.2019 18:21, Jeff Law wrote:
> On Thu, 2019-12-19 at 17:04 +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
>> CC: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Hi, gcc guys,
>>
>> this thread starts here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/12/19/403
>>
>> There are two const variables:
>>
>>    struct sched_class idle_sched_class
>> and
>>    struct sched_class fair_sched_class,
>>
>> which are declared in two files idle.c and fair.c.
>>
>> 1)In Makefile the order is: idle.o fair.o
>> 2)the variables go to the same ro section
>> 3)there is no SORT(.*) keyword in linker script.
>>
>> Is it always true, that after linkage &idle_sched_class < &fair_sched_class?
> I certainly wouldn't depend on it.   The first and most obvious problem
> is symbol sorting by the linker.  Longer term I'd be worried about LTO
> reordering things.
> 
> In the end I'm pretty sure it'd be well outside what I'd be comfortable
> depending on.

Ok, I'd be comfortable too :) Thanks for the clarification, Jeff.