Subject: Re: full-featured libbfd
To: None <tech-toolchain@netbsd.org>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 06/20/2002 09:48:45
>	i'm wondering if it is a good idea to provide full-feature
>	/usr/lib/libbfd (i mean, which supports all possible platforms and
>	binary file format), so that /usr/bin/objdump can decode practically
>	everything.  basically it is a re-do of BFD_UNIFIED in gnu/lib/libbfd.

	it seems that --enable-64-bit-bfd on 32bit arch causes problems to
	gdb and other stuffs (due to some sign extension issue, addresses will
	mitakenly become 0xffffffffdeadbeef, instead of 0xcafecafe).
	maybe it is too experimental.  but i liked objdump that supports
	"everything" - maybe a separate libbfd build just for objdump
	and stuff?

itojun