From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2007 13:23:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Comments.
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X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d4b4746356ce01a69b93294cd5fb6239bb059c9;p=gnulib.git

Comments.
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diff --git a/lib/uniname/uniname.c b/lib/uniname/uniname.c
index 371822c58..cf96c670c 100644
--- a/lib/uniname/uniname.c
+++ b/lib/uniname/uniname.c
@@ -30,7 +30,13 @@
 #define SIZEOF(a) (sizeof(a) / sizeof(a[0]))
 
 
-/* Table of Unicode character names, derived from UnicodeData.txt.  */
+/* Table of Unicode character names, derived from UnicodeData.txt.
+   This table is generated in a way to minimize the memory footprint:
+     1. its compiled size is small (less than 300 KB),
+     2. it resides entirely in the text or read-only data segment of the
+        executable or shared library: the table contains only immediate
+        integers, no pointers, and the functions don't do heap allocation.
+ */
 #include "uninames.h"
 /* It contains:
   static const char unicode_name_words[34594] = ...;