Hi Griogry,

> Also there is a little problem with the patch: new command line option
> has no affect on symbol table and local symbol table hashes because
> routine parse_args gets called after symbol_begin in "as.c", where these
> hashes allocated. 

Ah - good point.  There was also a small problem with non-BFD assemblers 
in that the patch used the bfd_size_type.  Therefore I am applying the 
attached patch to fix both of these problems.

I checked - moving the parse_args before the symbol_begin does not 
appear to have any adverse effects.

Cheers
   Nick

gas/ChangeLog
2005-04-14  Nick Clifton  <nickc@redhat.com>

	* as.c (main): Move parse_args before symbol_begin and frag_init
	so that the hash table size can be set before it is used.
	* hash.c: Use an unsigned long type for the size of the hash
	tables.
	* hash.h (set_gas_hash_table_size): Update the prototype.