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Re: Where to put per-target global BFD data ?



  In message <19990620164714.B4699@cygnus.com>you write:
  > >   I am not sure how this can be fixed.  I think using the hash table
  > >   may not be the best way to store global information, because of this
  > >   problem, and that another solution needs to be found.
  > 
  > My solution would be to outlaw linking together different formats,
  > and that the output format must match the input format.  Diddling
  > different formats is what objcopy is for.
I've got no problems with that.  multi-format linking was always an interesting
idea, but it never worked well and worked even less well when the linker was
changed to use native relocs instead of bfd relocs.  And I haven't seen that
multi-format linking has been all that important to the user community.

jeff


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