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author | Jing Yu <jingyu@google.com> | 2009-11-05 16:55:30 -0800 |
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committer | Jing Yu <jingyu@google.com> | 2009-11-05 16:55:30 -0800 |
commit | 2cafa61b4b039e5ac3b876fc44a05c61d66df4d4 (patch) | |
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diff --git a/binutils-2.19/bfd/TODO b/binutils-2.19/bfd/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7a12735 --- /dev/null +++ b/binutils-2.19/bfd/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +Things that still need to be done: -*- Text -*- + + o - A source of space lossage is that all the target-dependent code + is in a single bfd_target structure. Hence all the code for + *writing* object files is still pulled into all the applications + that only care about *reading* (gdb, nm, objdump), while gas has + to carry along all the unneeded baggage for reading objects. And + so on. This would be a substantial change, and the payoff would + not all that great (essentially none if bfd is used as a shared + library). + + o - The storage needed by BFD data structures is also larger than strictly + needed. This may be difficult to do much about. + + o - implement bfd_abort, which should close the bfd but not alter the + filesystem. + + o - update the bfd doc; write a how-to-write-a-backend doc, take out + the stupid quips and fill in all the blanks. + + o - upgrade the reloc handling as per Steve's suggestion. + + + + |