Re: proposed fix for PR 114

[Ben Elliston <bje at au dot ibm dot com>]

Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com> writes:

> What if instead bfd provided a facility to return in an
> application independent (*) fashion the entire line number
> table for a given address range?
> Then let the app use the data as it sees fit (including
> post-processing the data for its own optimal use).
> 
> Such a facility might have general use far beyond just gprof.
> 
> (*) and debug format independent

Well, this sounds good.  However, I was under the impression that
there would be a lot of resistance to widening the BFD interface.  If
that's not the case, then I would be interested in implementing a
function to extract the line number table.

Any comments before I begin? :-)

Ben