http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=52606
--- Comment #6 from Tobias Burnus <burnus at gcc dot gnu.org> 2012-03-20 10:58:13 UTC --- (In reply to comment #5) > What was the motivation for this hashing scheme, BTW? Linkers already support > 1) long symbol names (I read somewhere that OpenOffice has symbols up to 4000 > (!!!) characters long) 2) various symbol hashing schemes (see e.g. > DT_GNU_HASH). I think the idea was to have legible dumps (i.e. avoid hashing everything) but also to fit them into the various name[GFC_MAX_SYMBOL_LEN] variables which simply do not take longer names. If you think one can/should improve the scheme, feel free to propose something better. (Only) when switching to the new descriptor, we can change it.
