| 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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