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Re: bfd_read and bfd_write


Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:

> On 10 Sep 2001, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@bitrange.com> writes:
> > > If it didn't have a slightly wacky twist, it wouldn't be a good
> > > name. :-)  I still don't get the original BFD one, though.
> >
> > Which original BFD one?
> 
> That BFD (also) alludes to something other than Binary File
> Descriptor, because of this passage from bfd/doc/bfd.texinfo,
> node History:
> "The name came from a conversation David Wallace was having with
>  Richard Stallman about the library: RMS said that it would be
>  quite hard---David said ``BFD''.  Stallman was right, but the
>  name stuck."
> Me not native speaker.  Could it be as profane as "big f..ng deal"?

It could be and it is.

Ian


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