| Things that still need to be done: -*- Text -*- |
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| 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. |
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| o - implement bfd_abort, which should close the bfd but not alter the |
| filesystem. |
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| o - update the bfd doc; write a how-to-write-a-backend doc, take out |
| the stupid quips and fill in all the blanks. |
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| o - upgrade the reloc handling as per Steve's suggestion. |
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