From 3948b2f5991cea328122e2e6bfce699f82c07b4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Fletcher <thomasf@qnx.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 16:54:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Restore the symbol sort class, but deprecate its use so that
 we can remove the code in a near release.  CDT internals no longer reference
 this class.

---
 .../cdt/utils/elf/SymbolSortCompare.java      | 33 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/elf/SymbolSortCompare.java

diff --git a/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/elf/SymbolSortCompare.java b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/elf/SymbolSortCompare.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..21de0c9e4bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/org.eclipse.cdt.core/utils/org/eclipse/cdt/utils/elf/SymbolSortCompare.java
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2000, 2004 QNX Software Systems and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     QNX Software Systems - Initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.cdt.utils.elf;
+
+
+import java.util.Comparator;
+
+/**
+ * @deprecated This class is slated for removal, it is not used by the CDT classes
+ */
+public class SymbolSortCompare implements Comparator {
+	public int compare( Object o1, Object o2 ) {
+        String s1 = o1.toString();
+        String s2 = o2.toString();
+
+        while( s1.length() > 0 && s1.charAt( 0 ) == '_' )
+            s1 = s1.substring( 1 );
+
+        while( s2.length() > 0 && s2.charAt( 0 ) == '_' )
+            s2 = s2.substring( 1 );
+
+        return s1.compareToIgnoreCase( s2 );
+	}
+}
+