Re: reducing relocations in unvis(3) implementation

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 11:08:32AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> I'm about to commit NetBSD's implementation of the vis(3) and unvis(3)
> APIs to FreeBSD.  When I asked for review Jilles Tjoelker commented:
> 
> > Please avoid adding 100 relative relocations, for example by changing
> > const char *name to char name[7].
> > 
> > RTLD will have to adjust 100 pointers for the load address of libc.so.7,
> > and even in a static library the pointers take up a disproportionate
> > amount of space.
> 
> The following patch accomplishes this.

An even better option would be to use a perfect hash table, I think.

Joerg