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Re: Merged corrupt input fixes to 2.16 branch
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 14:39:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: Merged corrupt input fixes to 2.16 branch
- References: <20050530131454.GA18737@nevyn.them.org> <200505302112.54489.vapier@gentoo.org>
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:12:54PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 30 May 2005 09:14 am, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > I've merged these patches to 2.16. 2.16.1 is almost ready now; I'm hoping
> > to release it on Friday.
>
> it looks like the ld.1 manpage needs to be regenerated in the 2.16 release ?
> if you look at the section which talks about setting the default size of the
> linker's hash tables, the manpage is missing the '--hash-size=number' header
> but the ld.texinfo has it ...
>
> user pointed it out here: http://bugs.gentoo.org/94361
The manpage generation is fine; the texinfo isn't:
@kindex --reduce-memory-overheads
@item --reduce-memory-overheads
vs.
@kindex --hash-size=@var{number}
The @item was missing. I've committed this to fix it.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
2005-06-12 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* ld.texinfo (Command Line Options): Add @item for --hash-size.
Index: ld.texinfo
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/ld/ld.texinfo,v
retrieving revision 1.142
diff -u -p -r1.142 ld.texinfo
--- ld.texinfo 17 May 2005 14:35:21 -0000 1.142
+++ ld.texinfo 12 Jun 2005 18:37:21 -0000
@@ -1823,6 +1823,7 @@ created. By default, the new dynamic tag
those options are only available for ELF systems.
@kindex --hash-size=@var{number}
+@item --hash-size=@var{number}
Set the default size of the linker's hash tables to a prime number
close to @var{number}. Increasing this value can reduce the length of
time it takes the linker to perform its tasks, at the expense of