[rfc] declaring new object format "FDPIC ELF"

[Mike Frysinger]

some embedded linux targets (currently just Blackfin and FRV are merged, but 
there are other arches coming along) support a slight variant of ELF known as 
FDPIC ELF.  we both use different tuples to differentiate between FDPIC ELF 
and ELF toolchains.  the issue i'm trying to address is having the assembler 
select the FDPIC ELF bfd by default based on the tuple.  currently FRV just 
says "if it's Linux, it must be FDPIC ELF".  Blackfin currently requires you 
to explicitly specify the -mfdpic flag to the assembler (which we mostly get 
around as our gcc spec file will add it by default).

what i'd like to do is promote FDPIC ELF as an object format so that we can do 
the default target binding based on tuple and in the configure scripts rather 
than having this logic in the source code.  the annoying part is that the 
obj-fdpicelf files merely define one or two things and then include the 
normal obj-elf files.  i'm attaching a working patch (that is both outdated 
wrt CVS head and lacking ChangeLogs/etc...) to show what i mean.  if this is 
the way to go, i'll clean it up and submit it for commit.

is there a better way to do what i want ?
-mike
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