[patch] ld speedup 1/3 (suffix merge)

[Alan Modra]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 06:06:06PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote:
> Index: merge.c
> +static int
> +strrevcmp (const void *a, const void *b)
> +{
> +  struct sec_merge_hash_entry *A = *(struct sec_merge_hash_entry **) a;
> +  struct sec_merge_hash_entry *B = *(struct sec_merge_hash_entry **) b;
> +
> +  const unsigned char *s = A->root.string + A->len - A->u.entsize;
> +  const unsigned char *t = B->root.string + B->len - B->u.entsize;
> +
> +  int l = A->len < B->len ? A->len : B->len;
> +  l -= (A->u.entsize - 1);
> +  while (l)

This looks broken to me.  The last u.entsize bytes won't be compared.
Mind you, I think this was broken before.

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Alan Modra
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