bfd_read and bfd_write

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Thu Sep 6 10:33:00 GMT 2001


Hi Andrew, Hi Alan,

> could i suggest taking a step back and deciding what bfd's policy is
> going to be on public / external interfaces.  remember, bfd is a
> library used by more than gdb and the other code immediately to hand.
> i don't think changing public / external interfaces should be taken
> lightly

I agree.  In this case since we are changing the interface to bfd we
ought to take some time to give other users of the library a chance to
upgrade their software.

I like the idea of adding the new interface, with new function names,
and a warning message being generated if the old interface is used, as
part of the current CVS sources/forthcoming release.  Then in the
release after that, we can remove the old interface.

It takes longer this way I know, but I think that we ought to give
other binary tool developers a chance to change their software.

Cheers
        Nick





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