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Re: Indexed string tables?

Bernd Jendrissek <bernd.jendrissek@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:05 AM, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>> I would say that the string tables in bfd/hash.c are sequentially
>> indexed. ÂThe hash table is there so that duplicate strings are only
>> entered once. ÂWhat do you want to do for duplicate strings? ÂEnter them
>> into the string table more than once?
>
> Yes, OMF string tables are more like lists than like sets.  I don't
> think OMF has anything in principle against duplicate strings - it's
> the ID that counts.

Thanks for the explanation.

I'm not sure it's worth building a general data structure for this
because I think it's quite unlikely that anything else would work that
way.  But I don't really care very much.

Ian
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