Re: PATCH: Reduce size of SymbianOS DLLs

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:24:45AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> >Hi Richard,
> >
> >> Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> >>
> >
> >>If we leave the existing elf32-arm.h around for backwards compatibility
> >>(with elfarm-oabi.c), then we could create a merged elf32-arm.c for
> >>current development work without the need to waste a lot of time testing
> >>that the new changes don't break the old code.
> >
> >
> >This is a good idea.  Then when the 2.16 release is out the 
> >elf32-arm.h and elfarm-oabi.c files could be deleted.
> 
> But, if someone complained and we got convinced that we *did* need the 
> old, old ABI, then we might get stuck trying to make changes in two 
> places?  I like the obsoletion idea, but I'd be happy to live with 
> elf32-arm.h for one more release, before reorganizing.

I am entirely willing to tell them to go back to 2.15.  This thing is
_dead_.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz