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1 | Things that still need to be done: -*- Text -*- |
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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). | |
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12 | o - The storage needed by BFD data structures is also larger than strictly | |
13 | needed. This may be difficult to do much about. | |
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15 | o - implement bfd_abort, which should close the bfd but not alter the | |
16 | filesystem. | |
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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. | |
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21 | o - upgrade the reloc handling as per Steve's suggestion. | |
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