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Dave Korn wrote:

>   We probably still would.  First, the hash might collide and put two dlls in
> the same slot, and second, any dll greater than 1Mb overlaps into the next
> hash slot.

Well, if we found either of those things happening I think the logical
choice would be to robustify the hashing code in ld to try to avoid it
rather than fall back to running rebaseall again, but I take your point.

Brian

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