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Re: Always include elf.lo?

From: Nick Clifton <nickc at redhat dot com>
To: binutils at sourceware dot org, Pedro Alves <pedro_alves at portugalmail dot pt>
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 17:53:43 +0100
Subject: Re: Always include elf.lo?
References: <20070521125938.GC32557@caradoc.them.org>

Hi Daniel,

GDB currently includes elfread.o on all targets.

Why does GDB do this ? Wouldn't it make more sense for GDB only to include it for ELF based targets ?

Does anyone object to always compiling elf.lo for BFD, regardless of
the target?  I haven't tried it, but looking at the tangled
dependencies I think this will mean all of $elf too.

This does seem to be overkill. Unless there is a good reason why GDB cannot be modified I would prefer not bloat the non-ELF versions of the BFD library in this way.

Cheers
  Nick

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- Re: Always include elf.lo?
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  - From: Pedro Alves

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