Re: does make -p dump variables in the right order?

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 11:59 -0500, Adam Kellas wrote:
> I'd like to think that "make -q -p" would print out variables in the
> "correct" order, such that one can reliably infer from its output a
> variable's value at a given point based on the rules for recursive and
> simple expansions, but I don't see this explicitly stated in the
> manual. Can we rely on it?

In fact the output explicitly does NOT show in any particular order.
Variables are stored internally to make in a hash table, and the -p flag
dumps the contents by walking the hash table.  So, the values are
printed in essentially random order.