[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 04/56] anv/entrypoints: Generalize the string map a bit

[Emil Velikov]

On 7 March 2018 at 14:34, Jason Ekstrand <jason at jlekstrand.net> wrote:
> The original string map assumed that the mapping from strings to
> entrypoints was a bijection.  This will not be true the moment we
> add entrypoint aliasing.  This reworks things to be an arbitrary map
> from strings to non-negative signed integers.  The old one also had a
> potential bug if we ever had a hash collision because it didn't do the
> strcmp inside the lookup loop.  While we're at it, we break things out
> into a helpful class.
>
Instead of reworking it one can use a simple gcc/clang alias or
writing it out manually.
I'd imagine that the original code is faster, so there's little point
in using something else ;-)

[static] return_type
alias_name(args) __attribute__ ((alias(original_function)));

-Emil