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Re: [PATCH] Eliminate duplicate dwarf2 data
>>>>> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
> Daniel Berlin <dberlin@redhat.com> writes:
>>
>> First, we split the DIES across compilation units, one compilation
>> unit for each include file (or some better heuristic), with the DIES
>> for things in that include file as children of that compilation unit.
>>
>> Then, we do a checksum of the DIE (It's md5 right now), and
>> output the DIE in a linkonce section with the checksum in the name
>> (like .gnu.linkonce.wi._DW_192e1d5adfa).
> So it'll break when you have a hash collision ? (even MD5 can have
> collisions...)
Actually, it uses the filename as well as a hash, which should make the
possibilty of a collision even more remote.
Jason