Subject: Re: 2 BFD questions
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 12/28/1998 13:32:32
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
> : 2) Can I replace /usr/lib/libbfd.so.X.Y with another one with more targets
> : built into it without having to re-link all commands (I recall that the
> : size of some of the library info gets compiled into an application, and
> : thus you run into problems if tables grow or shrink) ?
>
> Yes. We have a special hack into libbfd that indirects the target table
> into a pointer instead of an array. In fact, I just added coff-i386 and
> a.out-i386-{free,}bsd targets to libbfd without bumping the library number
> at all.
Cool!
I'll play with this.
Take care,
Bill