Re: reducing relocations in unvis(3) implementation

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20121214175644.GA4734%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>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.

The code would need to be restructured, but yes!

christos