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Re: [PATCH 05/15] Add hle.h base header
> In several other projects right now I've used an opcode compatability
> layer, just like Andi is, so that features can be compiled in that
> binutils does not support yet.
>
> And it is an entirely reasonable thing to do.
It is a reasonable thing to do when there is good reason to worry about
people building with older tools and needing the new code. This is not
such a case.