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authorJohn Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>1998-03-01 22:58:51 +0000
committerJohn Polstra <jdp@FreeBSD.org>1998-03-01 22:58:51 +0000
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Initial import of GNU binutils version 2.8.1. Believe it or not,
this is heavily stripped down.
Notes
Notes: svn path=/vendor/binutils/dist/; revision=33965
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+Things that still need to be done: -*- Text -*-
+
+ o - A source of space lossage is that all the target-dependent code
+ is in a single bfd_target structure. Hence all the code for
+ *writing* object files is still pulled into all the applications
+ that only care about *reading* (gdb, nm, objdump), while gas has
+ to carry along all the unneeded baggage for reading objects. And
+ so on. This would be a substantial change, and the payoff would
+ not all that great (essentially none if bfd is used as a shared
+ library).
+
+ o - The storage needed by BFD data structures is also larger than strictly
+ needed. This may be difficult to do much about.
+
+ o - implement bfd_abort, which should close the bfd but not alter the
+ filesystem.
+
+ o - update the bfd doc; write a how-to-write-a-backend doc, take out
+ the stupid quips and fill in all the blanks.
+
+ o - upgrade the reloc handling as per Steve's suggestion.
+
+
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