Re: PATCH: Reduce size of SymbianOS DLLs

[Mark Mitchell <mark at codesourcery dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> 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_.
>  
OK.  In that case, I'd say we could just remove the code, then.  What's 
the point in pretending we might keep it, if we've already made up our 
minds?

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