Re: [Nasm-devel] rel qualifiers

[H. P. A. <hp...@zy...>]

anonymous coward wrote:
> 
> (Currently assembler directives are looked up serially, by
> a chain of string comparisons. So any new directive slows
> things down by a bit. By contrast, the warning would only
> slow down the to-be-written code that would default to rIP-
> relative, and then only by a compare-and-branch.)
> 

Fixing that should be simple enough.  We could go whole-hog and use a
perfect hash function generator (gperf or perfect are two that are
readily available), or just use a simple hash generator and puke at
compile time on violation.

	-hpa