RFA: broken strip/objcopy

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Sat Apr 25 00:26:00 GMT 2009


H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Dave Korn
>>  I'm still unhappy with the architecture of the whole thing.  It is bad
>> enough for binutils to reach into bfd and twiddle its private bits, now bfd is
>> predicating its behaviour on the usage patterns of one specific client,
>> binutils.  However, I see that it's not without precedent, as ld/ also does this.
> 
> I am not happy the whole PE/COFF in BFD.

  All the more reason not to add further kludges, if we can't go forwards we
should at least try to avoid getting deeper in a mess.

> Sorry, I don't have time for this.

  Oh well, we'll just have to pile it on the to-do list.

    cheers,
      DaveK



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