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Re: PATCH: use hashtab for pseudo op table


Hi Ben,

[Sorry about the delay in summarizing this]

I think that the result of the discussion on this topic is that a patch to remove the hashing code in gas/hash.c would be acceptable if:

* It switched gas over to using the code in bfd/hash.c or, even better, switched over both bfd and gas to using the code in libiberty.

and

* It does not introduce any regressions. (Duh :)

* It does not introduce a performance penalty to the assembler or linker.

Ensuring this last item might take a bit of work in order to find a few big applications and time them, but I think that it would be worthwhile. We already have working hash functions for the assembler and linker and I do not want to replace them with something that does not work or is less efficient.

Cheers
  Nick




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