keymap display inconsistency in help

[Stephen Berman]

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In GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2002-03-19 on steve
Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: POSIX
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-1
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
and the precise symptoms of the bug:

If a major mode keymap is defined using (make-keymap), then in both
the mode description and the function description of the mode the key
bindings are displayed in ASCII order; but if the keymap is defined
using (make-sparse-keymap), then the key bindings are displayed in
reverse ASCII order.


Recent input:
M-x l o a <tab> f <tab> <return> s <tab> <return> M-x 
s r <tab> b <tab> <return> C-h m C-x o C-x 1 C-x k 
<return> M-x s r b <tab> b <tab> <return> C-h f M-x 
<up> C-g C-h f <up> s r <tab> b <tab> b <tab> <return> 
C-g C-h f <up> <return> C-x o C-x 1 <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <menu-bar> 
<help-menu> <report-emacs-bug>

Recent messages:
Loading view...done
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
call-interactively: Quit
next-history-element: Beginning of history; no preceding item
Making completion list...
Loading /usr/local/libexec/emacs/21.2/i686-pc-linux-gnu/fns-21.2.1.el 
(source)...done
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
setq: Quit
Type C-x 1 to remove help window.  C-M-v to scroll the help.
Loading emacsbug...done