[poppler] Why does Gfx::opTab need to be built at runtime?

[Kristian Høgsberg]

On 9/26/07, Krzysztof Kowalczyk <kkowalczyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Jeff Muizelaar <jeff at infidigm.net> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 11:03:17PM -0400, Jeff Muizelaar wrote:
> > > gcc does not produce any code for this afaict. I can't understand why
> > > visualc would be, unless you are just disassembling the .data section.
> >
> > It also looks like the table could be made const.
>
> Yes. I actually did that except it didn't show any improvements with
> msvc so I didn't commit the change. But on unix at the very least it
> should move this data to read-only of the dll, so less memory would be
> used if multiple processes used libpoppler. Not 100% sure if the
> presence of relocatable data (function pointers) doesn't prevent that.

If the functions are static, the function pointers in the table
shouldn't generate relocations.

Kristian