slow links due to merge_strings

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 06:22:23PM -0700, Kevin Nomura wrote:
> As an experiment I made this change:
> 
>       for (i = 0; i < e->len; i++)

Which is wrong.

> The executable output file was bitwise identical.  

Luck..  I'm not going to try to explain what the code is doing, since
if you slog through it yourself you're more likely to find real bugs.
;-)

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre