[RFD] New binutil 'objsplit'

[Ian Lance Taylor]

"Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com> writes:

>   Well, for starters, at least one of the backends <koff> isn't actually ELF
> at all, but use the generic linker functions on ELF bfds.  That's alright,
> albeit slightly inefficient, but to use gc you'd have to fully convert them
> to use the elf infrastructure, which is a moderate amount of work; there's
> no generic relocate_section routine.  It gets even hairier if there are
> howto's with special functions in them.

I guess I would encourage everybody to use the ELF specific backend.
The relocate_section routine is usually easier to write than the HOWTO
special functions anyhow.

Overall it still seems simpler to me than objsplit, except of course
that you've already done objsplit.

So I'm not sure.

Ian