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Re: [rfa] Add bfd_runtime
- From: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: ac131313 at redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 10:35:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: [rfa] Add bfd_runtime
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Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com> writes:
> I could just as easily, and, at least to my mind, just as justifiably,
> say
> elf-target has-a object-file
> elf-target has-a executable-file
> elf-target has-a shared-library-file
> and conclude that we should expand bfd_format to distinguish object
> files, executables, and shared libraries.
But then, executables and shared libraries are not very different from
each other either. Both can be executed, both are runtime relocated, and
neither are linktime relocatable.
Andreas.
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