[PATCH]: random global function name

Richard Henderson rth@redhat.com
Tue Jul 8 22:55:00 GMT 2003


On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:51:16PM +0100, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
> This patch replaces the append_random_chars function with a crc32, and
> hence removes a use of clean_symbol_name -- it seems silly to generate
> a random string in a complicated manner, and then strip it of bogus chars.
> The crc32_string function will be used from elsewhere.

I don't like this at all.  We've reduced the amount of 
uniqueness from a complete pathname (which is almost
certainly unique within a given project, at least), to
a 32-bit value.



r~



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