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List:       binutils
Subject:    Re: [rfa] Add bfd-in-memory io vector
From:       Andrew Cagney <cagney () gnu ! org>
Date:       2004-04-30 22:31:02
Message-ID: 4092D3A6.6050001 () gnu ! org
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> > > I've tested this on i386 GNU/Linux with no regressions.  However, given 
> > > my experience with the previous IOVEC change, I'm not sure how 
> > > significant that result is :-/
> 
> 
> A significant user of the BIM code is Cygwin's DLL stuff, both
> creating DLLs (with ld -shared) and linking against them (directly,
> not with import libraries).

s/A significant/The evil/, as I wrote:

> Note that it doesn't completly consolidate code using "struct bfd_in_memory" as \
> some of it is pretty evil (grep for remaining references to BFD_IN_MEMORY).  I'll \
> do another pass at eliminating more of the BFD_IN_MEMORY references in a follow-up \
> patch. 

I tried to leave that code be.  Not sure how successful I was.

Andrew


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