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RE: rebase not compilable


Brian Dessent wrote on 02 June 2008 18:33:

> Dave Korn wrote:
> 
>>   There are only 1024 possible image bases to choose from, and any DLL >=
>> 256kB in size will span several of them.  Collisions are an
>> inevitability, no?   I think we'll probably still have a need for rebase
>> until the whole world goes 64bit and we've got room for a few more hash
>> buckets[*]. 
> 
> If the hash function is poor 


  That's not what I said at all.  Regardless of how well (or poorly) the
hash function distributes DLLS into the various buckets, there are only 1024
of them, and we have many DLLs, many of which will occupy multiple buckets;
collisions are inevitable.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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