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Question about life-time of symbol name strings in BFD
- From: "=?big5?b?RG91ZyBLd2FuICjD9q62vHcp?=" <dougkwan at google dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:00:09 -0700
- Subject: Question about life-time of symbol name strings in BFD
Hi,
:I am working on speeding up nm -l in the case a large binary. I
added a bit of code that uses the BFD hash table in dwarf2.c. The
speed comes with a price in terms of memory usage. However, I found
that I can reduce the extra memory required significantly if I do not
copy hash keys. My question is whether this is safe. Can I assume that
symbol->name is a constant pointer?
Thanks
-Doug