Re: GLib Patch

[Andrew Taylor <andrew taylor montage ca>]

Owen Taylor wrote:

> If you are into this type of project, there are two more you
> could tackle:
>
>  A) gunidecomp.h is a far worse offender for relocations than
>     the stuff you fixed ... it has about 3500 relocations!


...


>    A simpler approach would be simply have indirection
>    with:
>
>      unsigned gushort expansion_index;
>
>    Being an offset into a simple char * holding all the 
>    expansions concatenated together; I think this is
>    probably the right approach.


I've created a bug for this issue, along with a patch based on the 
approach you described here: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64982.  It gets rid of another 
3500 or so relocations, as well as moving more data into the .rodata 
section.

Andrew