interesting change

[Ulrich Drepper]

First, sorry for the broken patch I've added.  HJ's malloc patch was
buggy and I haven't tested it before I added it.  It should be back to
normal now.

Then, to end the working week I walked into rth's office and
complained about gcc limiting me to write good code.  The result: an
hour later we he had a patch which solved the problem.  It is now in
the egcs mainline.

The problem to solve was the handling of tables with addresses of
local labels.  I introduced this in vfprintf.c.  Ever since the data
section was big because of the tables which had to be relocated and
therefore couldn't be made read-only.  Also, there were runtime
relocations.  This is now gone and the data section is slim again and
startup time got better again.

I hope I got the configure test and the conditionals right.  But
you'll certainly let me know.

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