Re: [PATCH 2/2] Replace the linear search with a binary search forlocate the symbols

From: Alessio Igor Bogani
Date: Mon Mar 28 2011 - 04:22:18 EST


Dear Mr. Kleen,

2011/3/26 Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
>> I have felt sure to have sorted both: indeed the linker sorts symbols
>> *before* it writes down their addresses (and not after). But I could
>> have made a mistake, obviously.
>
> I was refering to the address the symbol points to, not the address of
> the ksymtab entry.

I'm very confused.

My patches don't change nothing else but ksymtab* and kcrctab*
entries. My intentions were to leave actual symbols completely
unchanged.

Ciao,
Alessio
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