It generally does not matter much where we place sections ordered
by --symbol-ordering-file relative to other sections. But if the
ordered sections are hot (which is the case already for some users
of --symbol-ordering-file, and is increasingly more likely to be
the case once profile-guided section layout lands) and the target
has limited-range branches, it is beneficial to place the ordered
sections in the middle of the output section in order to decrease
the likelihood that a range extension thunk will be required to call
a hot function from a cold function or vice versa.
That is what this patch does. After D44966 it reduces the size of
Chromium for Android's .text section by 60KB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44969
llvm-svn: 328905
Peter Collingbourne