Order of variables in "whos"

[John W. Eaton]

On  4-May-1998, (Ted Harding) <address@hidden> wrote:

| It seems that the order in which variables are listed by "whos" is
| independent of the order in which they are created, of the
| alphabetical order of their names, and of their array dimensions.
| 
| Is it random, or is there some hidden regularity?

As someone said, the strange order is due to having the symbol table
information stored in a hash table.  I thought they were sorted (and I
think they were at one time) but either a change in the C++ string
class or a misunderstanding on my part broke the comparison function.
Please try the following patch.

Thanks,

jwe


Mon May  4 11:56:20 1998  John W. Eaton  <address@hidden>

        * symtab.cc (symbol_record_info_cmp): Use string::compare instead
        of string::operator==.


*** src/symtab.cc~      Tue Apr  7 15:40:17 1998
--- src/symtab.cc       Mon May  4 11:56:44 1998
***************
*** 1018,1024 ****
  static inline int
  symbol_record_info_cmp (symbol_record_info *a, symbol_record_info *b)
  {
!   return (a->name () == b->name ());
  }
  
  static int
--- 1018,1026 ----
  static inline int
  symbol_record_info_cmp (symbol_record_info *a, symbol_record_info *b)
  {
!   string a_nm = a->name ();
!   string b_nm = b->name ();
!   return a_nm.compare (b_nm);
  }
  
  static int