ld: Avoid overflows in string merging

Michael Matz matz@suse.de
Wed Nov 8 16:16:30 GMT 2023


Hey,

On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Michael Matz wrote:

> > Otoh aren't we also at risk of underestimating when entsize == 1 and
> > we're not dealing with strings?
> 
> Hmm, that's true.  I need to fix that.

Ah, no.  I remember: the nr of buckets starts out as 0x2000, which is 
impossible to reach by distinct size 1 entities, no matter how 
underestimating the estimation is.  So, it's confusing but not wrong :)


Ciao,
Michael.


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