FreeBSD 4.6 - binutils 2.14 installs useless libbfd

[John Levon]

On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 02:13:23PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

> > Furthermore, the parts of libbfd we actually use (namely, reading
> > symbols and debug info) have had stable APIs for ages.
> 
> Incidentally, this is actually incorrect.  The APIs are stable from
> the point of source code, but they aren't stable from the point of
> view of shipping a shared library which provides them.  That's because
> of BFD's habit of using a vector of function pointers, and providing a
> lot of functionality via macros.

This sounds like ABI not API to me. Apologies if I've misunderstood you.

Nobody expects a stable ABI.

> I agree with that description.  Nick is the overall maintainer, so he
> can make a different decision.

OK, thanks.

regards
john

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