backward/forward compatibility of binutils

['Daniel Jacobowitz']

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> I may sound arrogant, but I don't see, how the bfd is different from, again, 
> JPEG or PNG -- it provides a way to deal with different binary formats, not 
> entirely unlike the different image formats (there are many kinds of PNGs 
> too, BTW).

Sorry, but please stop discussing this on the list.  Ian's response is
definitive.  It answers most of your questions from this message.

> Things are, of course, trickier, when the tools have to deal with live 
> processes (and kernels), but those areas are tiny and require a great deal of 
> OS/arch level customization anyway...

BFD has nothing to do with that anyway.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery