On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Bill Studenmund wrote:
> 
> : 2) Can I replace /usr/lib/libbfd.so.X.Y with another one with more targets
> : built into it without having to re-link all commands (I recall that the
> : size of some of the library info gets compiled into an application, and
> : thus you run into problems if tables grow or shrink) ?
> 
> Yes.  We have a special hack into libbfd that indirects the target table
> into a pointer instead of an array.  In fact, I just added coff-i386 and
> a.out-i386-{free,}bsd targets to libbfd without bumping the library number
> at all.

Cool!

I'll play with this.

Take care,

Bill