ld-linux and ld-funcs thoughts

[sfora dim]

On 5/30/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 May 2007, sfora dim wrote:
> >  Why does ld-linux and ld-funcs have to implement everything
> > again and not use the BFD library (or maybe a trimmed version
> > of it, so we won't waste memory and time on unwanted file formats) ?
> >
> > why do everything from scratch ?  just for efficiency sake ?
>
> isnt that enough ?

But doesn't that makes it hard for maintainance ? (every change or addition
have to be inflicted twice, both in binutils (in ld or in a BFD backend) and
in glibc (in elf/rtld.c or elf/ld*.c)) ?

thank you
sfora
> -mike
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