Re: [PATCH] Eliminate duplicate dwarf2 data

["Andi Kleen" <ak at suse dot de>]

On Sun, Aug 27, 2000 at 08:27:06AM -0700, Daniel Berlin wrote:
> > 
> > So it'll break when you have a hash collision ?  (even MD5 can have 
> > collisions...)
> 
> Also, let's not forget how many other important things on your system 
> depend on MD5 not colliding before the sun explodes.

Nothing depends on it AFAIK. Name anything that does. A lot of stuff 
depends on nobody being able to produce collisions arbitarily, but not
on that they never occur.

> I'd rather see you produce a collision, than complain it's possible.

I just dislike solutions that only work 99.999% of all times (I know
it is a few more nines in this case)

Would it be possible for the linker to compare the whole record before
deleting something ?  

-Andi