28 Aug
2002
28 Aug
'02
12:40 a.m.
Hi Alastair.
I just want to remark that anyone contemplating hacking on object files should steer well clear of BFD which is the most inconsistently implemented, poorly (though abundantly) documented obstacle to quality programming it has ever been my misfortune to use. Particularily galling is the fact that BFD provides little indication (in documentation, compile-time errors, etc.) that certain functionality is completely unimplemented on a particular platform.
Thanks for that - I have had a similar experience and am not experienced in this side of programming so I was finding the BFD library to be particularly opaque. In the context of GCL it is indeed Linux Elf platforms which work nicely with BFD. Cheers Mike Thomas.