RFC: More stuff in struct bfd_link_info

Nick Clifton nickc@cambridge.redhat.com
Wed Jan 9 08:15:00 GMT 2002


Hi Hans-Peter,

> There's a some target-specific cruft in struct bfd_link_info
> (for example "int mpc860c0" and "boolean pei386_auto_import")
> that could go away (or at least not accumulate) if there was
> just a target-specific PTR member, say "PTR target_data".

An excellent suggestion!

> Also, I'd like to move "boolean relax" from ld.h:args_type to
> struct bfd_link_info, so bfd functions can see whether
> relaxation should be done, and perhaps also set it (only) when
> necessary; for example if some presumably costly relaxation only
> needs to be done if certain relocs are present.

Hmm, I don't see why not.

Cheers
        Nick




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