doesn't happen at all). If you discover that significant time is
spent in the loops below, do 'set complaints 100' and examine the
resulting complaints. */
-
if (objfile1 == objfile2)
{
- /* Both sections came from the same objfile. We are really confused.
- Sort on sequence order of sections within the objfile. */
+ /* Both sections came from the same objfile. We are really
+ confused. Sort on sequence order of sections within the
+ objfile. The order of checks is important here, if we find a
+ match on SECT2 first then either SECT2 is before SECT1, or,
+ SECT2 == SECT1, in both cases we should return false. The
+ second case shouldn't occur during normal use, but std::sort
+ does check that '!(a < a)' when compiled in debug mode. */
const struct obj_section *osect;
ALL_OBJFILE_OSECTIONS (objfile1, osect)
- if (osect == sect1)
- return true;
- else if (osect == sect2)
+ if (osect == sect2)
return false;
+ else if (osect == sect1)
+ return true;
/* We should have found one of the sections before getting here. */
gdb_assert_not_reached ("section not found");