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From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
Subject: bug#24703: Store references in 8-byte chunks in compiled code
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:40:22 -0400
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To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: 24703@debbugs.gnu.org

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:36:57PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I've been investigating another approach: to enhance our scanner and
> grafter to handle these 8-byte-chunked references.  I believe it is
> feasible, but only if we abandon the ability to change the file names of
> grafts outside of the hash.  The reason is that the hash portion of
> store references are surrounded by enough other known characters on both
> sides that the hash portion is almost always contained entirely within
> 8-byte chunks.
> 
> To be continued...

Any progress? If not, I think we should start making a list of packages
affected by the bug in order to prepare a -fno-builtin-strcpy branch.