bfd/TODO

   1 Things that still need to be done: -*- Text -*-
   2
   3  o - A source of space lossage is that all the target-dependent code
   4      is in a single bfd_target structure.  Hence all the code for
   5      *writing* object files is still pulled into all the applications
   6      that only care about *reading* (gdb, nm, objdump), while gas has
   7      to carry along all the unneeded baggage for reading objects.  And
   8      so on.  This would be a substantial change, and the payoff would
   9      not all that great (essentially none if bfd is used as a shared
  10      library).
  11
  12  o - The storage needed by BFD data structures is also larger than strictly
  13      needed.  This may be difficult to do much about.
  14
  15  o - implement bfd_abort, which should close the bfd but not alter the
  16      filesystem.
  17
  18  o - update the bfd doc; write a how-to-write-a-backend doc, take out
  19      the stupid quips and fill in all the blanks.
  20
  21  o - upgrade the reloc handling as per Steve's suggestion.
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