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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
4 code is in a single bfd_target structure. Hence all the code
5 for *writing* object files is still pulled into all the applications
6 that only care about *reading* (gdb, nm, objdump), while gas
7 has to carry along all the unneded baggage for reading objects.
8 And so one. This would be a much more substantial change,
9 and the payoff would be less (essentially none if bfd is
10 used as a shared 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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