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authorBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2003-02-11 11:09:27 +0000
committerBruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>2003-02-11 11:09:27 +0000
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When the option -k is not given, the default key positions are now computed
depending on the set of keywords.
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@@ -985,6 +985,10 @@ with length less than the indicated byte positions work properly, since
selected byte positions exceeding the keyword length are simply not
referenced in the hash function.
+This option is not normally needed since version 2.8 of @code{gperf};
+the default byte positions are computed depending on the keyword set,
+through a search that minimizes the number of byte positions.
+
@item -D
@itemx --duplicates
@cindex Duplicates