[patch] Add bfd_target_info function to bfd and unify windres/windmc target information gathering
Nick Clifton
nickc@redhat.com
Thu Nov 12 10:58:00 GMT 2009
Hi Kai,
> Well, this was the reason, why I put the target_name check within this
> function. I wanted to avoid multiple patterns of the form
>
> bfd_target *t = bfd_find_target (my_target, NULL);
> if (!t) error out
> my_store_symbol_prefix = t->symbol_prefix;
>
> ....
>
> As most of the bfd helper macros here depend on an existing bfd *. But
> a bfd * is at some points not present (eg windres tool and windmc), so
> a function to gather those information by a common function is better
> then re-implementing again and again.
OK, that is fair. In which case lets go with your original plan for the
function.
Cheers
Nick
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