| 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. | |