why does 4.3bsd still lorder|tsort libc?

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <20883 at adm.BRL.MIL> stanonik at nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik) writes:
>Since 4.3bsd ranlib's libraries such as libc.a, why
>does the Makefile for libc.a still lorder|tsort before
>ar'ing the .o files?

Why not?

One possible advantage is if you naively "cp new_libc.a libc.a"
the newly installed libc.a will work okay even though the BSD "ld"
grumbles that its table of contents is unusable.