patches/binutils/2.17/500-bfd-hash-tweak.patch
author "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
Thu May 15 20:54:06 2008 +0000 (2008-05-15)
branch1.1
changeset 510 59d231e1c220
permissions -rw-r--r--
Backport #627 from trunk:
Add a patch to the ageing glibc-2.3.6 to make it compile on stupid shells that have a defective implementation of echo.
Thanks to Willy Tarreau for pointing to the patch.

/branches/1.1/docs/CREDITS | 4 4 0 0 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
     1 Signed-off-by: dank@kegel.com
     2 
     3 Raising the size of the hash table is a noticable win when linking 
     4 at least one large app.  
     5 
     6 There was a patch,
     7 http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2004-06/msg00165.html
     8 to do this dynamically.  No idea why that didn't make it in.
     9 So this tiny change to raise the default size is just
    10 a stopgap for now.
    11 
    12 
    13 --- binutils-2.17/bfd/hash.c.old	2006-03-02 23:01:39.000000000 -0800
    14 +++ binutils-2.17/bfd/hash.c	2006-03-02 23:01:58.000000000 -0800
    15 @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
    16  */
    17  
    18  /* The default number of entries to use when creating a hash table.  */
    19 -#define DEFAULT_SIZE 4051
    20 +#define DEFAULT_SIZE 32749
    21  static size_t bfd_default_hash_table_size = DEFAULT_SIZE;
    22  
    23  /* Create a new hash table, given a number of entries.  */