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Re: BFD msbin patch
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Greg Banks <gnb at alphalink dot com dot au>
- Cc: Binutils Mailing List <binutils at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 01:53:03 -0500
- Subject: Re: BFD msbin patch
- References: <3C69DA16.E77E2371@alphalink.com.au>
On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 02:14:30PM +1100, Greg Banks wrote:
> G'day,
>
> I have a patch to BFD which adds read and write support for the
> Microsoft .BIN format, which is a simple format for downloading
> binaries to embedded targets. It's similar in concept to S-records
> but more efficient to transfer and correspondingly less robust in
> the presence of communication errors.
>
> Before I submit it, I need a couple of newbie questions answered.
>
> 1. My patch is against 2.11.2, should I update it to be against
> the latest CVS before submitting?
Absolutely.
> 2. Should I submit generated changes to configure and Makefile.in?
> The problem is I'm currently running a different version of
> autoconf, and there are spurious changes.
Generally you shouldn't include changes to the massive generated files;
they clutter up the diff and add no semantic information.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer