Rather than run risks of more expensive and repetitive
address resolution, we will establish this local index
for a one time cost and avoid any potential gcc bloat.
[ this commit was made in pursuit of a bug involving ]
[ the distortion of elapsed task tics. but, it turns ]
[ out these changes had nothing to do with that bug. ]
[ however, the patch is being retained as desirable. ]
Signed-off-by: Jim Warner <james.warner@comcast.net>
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