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From: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
To: binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] libctf: impose an ordering on conflicting types
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2022 12:08:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee1hlb39.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220427155130.238504-2-nick.alcock@oracle.com> (Nick Alcock via Binutils's message of "Wed, 27 Apr 2022 16:51:30 +0100")

On 27 Apr 2022, Nick Alcock via Binutils verbalised:

> When two types conflict and they are not types which can have forwards
> (say, two arrays of different sizes with the same name in two different
> TUs) the CTF deduplicator uses a popularity contest to decide what to
> do: the type cited by the most other types ends up put into the shared
> dict, while the others are relegated to per-CU child dicts.

(Installed. Original reporter says it fixes his bug -- internal or
there'd be a sourceware bug. Maybe I should ask for one in future
from internal reporters anyway, since it's user-visible?)

      reply	other threads:[~2022-04-28 11:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-27 15:51 [PATCH 1/2] libctf: add a comment explaining how to use ctf_*open Nick Alcock
2022-04-27 15:51 ` [PATCH 2/2] libctf: impose an ordering on conflicting types Nick Alcock
2022-04-28 11:08   ` Nick Alcock [this message]

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