bug#24703: Store references in 8-byte chunks in compiled code

[Ludovic Courtès]

Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> skribis:

> When grafting, how will we achieve confidence that we've found the
> correct occurrence of the last character?  I think we will have to give
> up our recently added feature of being able to change the version number
> of grafts.

Wait, don’t jump to the conclusions.  :-)

> Oh, one more thing: I forgot to mention in my previous email, where
> 'bash-static' refers to 'glibc-intermediate', that on my system the
> referenced 'glibc-intermediate' has been garbage-collected from my
> system, so that's a real-world example of a broken link, and it happened
> to be the first one I investigated :-(

‘bash-static’ is purposefully designed to stand alone: it must have zero
references:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
$ guix size bash-static
store item                                                       total    self
/gnu/store/nxysmfi9ybchnxfpxpmpgvz4f0nh7mxs-bash-static-4.3.42       1.4     
1.4 100.0%
total: 1.4 MiB
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

So this one is fine.

Ludo’.