Re: PATCH: Reduce size of SymbianOS DLLs

[Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha at gcc dot gnu dot org>]

On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 15:17, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 03:04:07PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Grr.  I hate the BFD.  In particular I hate the fact that there is much
> > code in header files, especially elf32-arm.h!  If only I had the time to
> > restructure it all...
> > 
> > I guess if you are happy with all this, then I am happy :-)
> 
> Well now that you mention it...  elf32-arm.h is a header so that it can
> be included by elfarm-nabi.c and elfarm-oabi.c.  I haven't seen
> indication of the "old, old" ABI being used in a long time.  If I
> remember right, you were talking about removing it.
> 
> If there's no reason not to do that, we could move all the code from
> elf32-arm.h and elfarm-nabi.c to elf32-arm.c (or just move it to
> elfarm-nabi.c to avoid disrupting history).  That's real simple.

I would have thought all the 'interesting' history was in elf32-arm.h,
which we'd loose anyway.  So moving it all to elf32-arm.c would probably
be the 'correct' move for consistency with other architectures.

Are we at the correct point in the release cycle for making this sort of
change?

R.