backward/forward compatibility of binutils

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:51:12PM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> On the other hand, those patches didn't happen that often, so one
> probably _could_ do that.

... but when it breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

I'd ask that if you want to ship a libbfd for public use, only ship the
static library.  It may be useful to ship the dynamic library, if only
because it saves a lot of space in as/ld/objcopy/objdump/strip, but gdb
may not want the same copy.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery