Re: just a little nitpik in bfd

[Nick Clifton <nickc at cambridge dot redhat dot com>]

Hi Richard,

> There was a lot of discussion about this in gcc-land a year 
> or two ago.  It resulted in htab_hash_string in libiberty.

Hmm, that sounds like a good idea.  Unfortunately when I tried it, it
lead to several strange failures in the LD testsuite for an x86 native
toolchain.  eg:

  Running
  /home/nickc/work/sources/sourceware/ld/testsuite/ld-elfvers/vers.exp
  ...
  [snip]

  /builds/sourceware/native/binutils/objdump --private-headers
    tmpdir/vers6 | sed -n /Version/,\$p > tmpdir/objdump.out 
  Did not find "    0x0a7927b2 0x00 ?? VERS_1.2"
  Version References:
    required from libc.so.6:
      0x0d696910 0x00 04 GLIBC_2.0
      0x09691f73 0x00 03 GLIBC_2.1.3
    required from tmpdir/vers1.so:
      0x0a7927b2 0x00 06 VERS_1.2
      0x0a7927b1 0x00 05 VERS_1.1
      0x0a7922b0 0x00 02 VERS_2.0

  FAIL: vers6

I am not sure why this would be happening since I had made a complete
clean and rebuild of ld, binutils and gas.

Cheers
        Nick