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[Patch mach-o/gas] make section type names target-dependent.

Iain Sandoe developer@sandoe-acoustics.co.uk
Mon Dec 19 15:44:00 GMT 2011 
On 19 Dec 2011, at 12:46, Tristan Gingold wrote:

>>>
>>> Almost OK for me.  I don't understand the reordering of  
>>> bfd_mach_o_section type.  They were ordering by values.  What is  
>>> the new criteria ?
>>
>> Well, the expensive search is on the text when running gas.  I was  
>> thinking that, ideally, the tables would be ordered so that the  
>> most-often-used types are near the beginning (a dup value had also  
>> crept in).
>
> Ok, that makes sense.  Please, just add a comment that the entries  
> are ordered by use frequency for gas (until we use an hash table).

done.
>>> Should I commit ?
>>
>> I suppose I should do this one.. and see if I have everything in  
>> place correctly…
>
> Great, go ahead!

done, hopefully all OK ... would be grateful for an eye cast over it  
in case I've missed anything about differences in policy between here  
and GCC.

cheers
Iain
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