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Re: backward/forward compatibility of binutils
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 02:41:12PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote:
> I may sound arrogant, but I don't see, how the bfd is different from, again,
> JPEG or PNG -- it provides a way to deal with different binary formats, not
> entirely unlike the different image formats (there are many kinds of PNGs
> too, BTW).
Sorry, but please stop discussing this on the list. Ian's response is
definitive. It answers most of your questions from this message.
> Things are, of course, trickier, when the tools have to deal with live
> processes (and kernels), but those areas are tiny and require a great deal of
> OS/arch level customization anyway...
BFD has nothing to do with that anyway.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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