[PATCH 00/59] Deduplicating CTF linker

[Nick Alcock]

On 20 Jul 2020, Alan Modra via Binutils verbalised:

> On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 10:31:27PM +0100, Nick Alcock via Binutils wrote:
>> On 1 Jul 2020, Nick Alcock via Binutils said:
>> 
[...]
>> > Please read and review as you wish -- most of these are libctf-only changes,
>> > but I'd be very happy for review of those too.  There are only a few dozen
>> > lines of non-testsuite changes outside libctf.
>> 
>> Ping? Patches 53, 54, 55, 56, 59 and possibly 57 and 58 are outside
>
> These are OK.

Thank you! This gets libctf a lot closer to being actually usable by gdb
in real programs :) (One more feature is needed, which I'm working on
now.)

>> (There will be at least one more round of this series before pushing:
>> there are a bunch of small fixes that fell out of cygwin and mingw
>> testing. This series is long, so a repost of the whole thing with the
>> fixes is probably not wanted: I'm not sure whether people would prefer
>> fixups to the existing commits, a range-diff, or a simple repost of the
>> corrected commits with changes notated in the commit log.)
>
> Deltas from the previously posted patches would be good.  That should
> be easy if you keep fixups separate, aiming to squash fixups before
> committing.

Will do. All the fixups are in libctf/ only, or in the new CTF
testsuite, so I don't think they'll need much in the way of review.