> 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.

I think that would add complexity, would make grafting slower, and
abandoning the ability to change file names would be a regression.

So I’m more in favor of a GCC patch like above, or another compilation
tweak.

WDYT?

Thanks,
Ludo’.