| 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). |
| 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. |
| 22 | \f |
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