just a little nitpik in bfd

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Fri May 17 15:31:00 GMT 2002


On Fri, May 17, 2002 at 07:45:00AM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> It might be interesting to test possible hash functions empirically on
> the symbol names found in real programs, to see which ones gave better
> distribution.

There was a lot of discussion about this in gcc-land a year
or two ago.  It resulted in htab_hash_string in libiberty.


r~



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