Make the default gas symbol hash table larger
Alan Modra
amodra@gmail.com
Fri Jul 14 03:36:51 GMT 2023
We may as well start with the symbol table a little larger, saving
time resizing. Even a simple C hello world compiled with -O2 -g will
exceed 16 symbols (by well over 3 times with gcc-11).
* symbols.c (symbol_begin): Create sy_hash with more entries.
diff --git a/gas/symbols.c b/gas/symbols.c
index a335c316903..ea05801e356 100644
--- a/gas/symbols.c
+++ b/gas/symbols.c
@@ -3103,7 +3103,7 @@ symbol_begin (void)
{
symbol_lastP = NULL;
symbol_rootP = NULL; /* In case we have 0 symbols (!!) */
- sy_hash = htab_create_alloc (16, hash_symbol_entry, eq_symbol_entry,
+ sy_hash = htab_create_alloc (1024, hash_symbol_entry, eq_symbol_entry,
NULL, xcalloc, free);
#if defined (EMIT_SECTION_SYMBOLS) || !defined (RELOC_REQUIRES_SYMBOL)
--
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM
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