On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:55:35PM +0000, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>On Wednesday 07 November 2007 15:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> +config LDSO_GNU_HASH_SUPPORT
>> +    bool "Enable GNU hash style support"
>> +    depends on HAVE_SHARED
>> +    default n
>> +    help
>> +      Newest binutils support a new hash style named GNU-hash. The dynamic
>> +      linker will use the new GNU-hash section (.gnu.hash) for symbol 
>> lookup 
>> +      if present into the ELF binaries, otherwise it will use the old SysV 
>> +      hash style (.hash). This ensures that it is completely backward 
>> compatible.
>> +      Further, being the hash table implementation self-contained into each
>> +      executable and shared libraries, objects with mixed hash style can
>> +      peacefully coexist in the same process.
>> +      
>> +      If you want to use this new feature, answer Y  
>> +
>
>If I would read this help text, I'd wonder whether this
>new GNU style hash is actually better than old way, and why.
>Is it smaller? faster? or what...

One very visible effect introduced by it is that cross-compilation is
broken now. Unpleasant.

Reverting locally.
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