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

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:36:57PM -0400, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> I've been investigating another approach: to enhance our scanner and
> grafter to handle these 8-byte-chunked references.  I believe it is
> feasible, but only if we abandon the ability to change the file names of
> grafts outside of the hash.  The reason is that the hash portion of
> store references are surrounded by enough other known characters on both
> sides that the hash portion is almost always contained entirely within
> 8-byte chunks.
> 
> To be continued...

Any progress? If not, I think we should start making a list of packages
affected by the bug in order to prepare a -fno-builtin-strcpy branch.