A gdb+bfd string pool?

[Andrew Cagney]

>> The interface or the implementation?  The bcache interface is focused 
>> and simple (something that can't be said for that hash table).  The 
>> hashtab could certainly be used in the implementation (as elf-strtab did).
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> So does gdb/symtab.c.
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>> Anyway, back to the question.  Does a [global] common pool make sense 
>> for BFD?
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> Oh, you meant an _instance_, not a data structure.  Sorry.

More specifically, a single instance.  Instead of having something like 
a per-object file symbol bcache as was done with GDB, there would just 
be a single global bcache (and it would never shrink).

Andrew