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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Nick Clifton <nickc@redhat.com>,
	Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@gcc.gnu.org>,
	Ian Lance Taylor <ian@wasabisystems.com>,
	binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: PATCH: Reduce size of SymbianOS DLLs
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 16:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041102163136.GC15305@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4187B4CD.5090301@codesourcery.com>

On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:24:45AM -0800, Mark Mitchell wrote:
> Nick Clifton wrote:
> 
> >Hi Richard,
> >
> >> Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> >>
> >
> >>If we leave the existing elf32-arm.h around for backwards compatibility
> >>(with elfarm-oabi.c), then we could create a merged elf32-arm.c for
> >>current development work without the need to waste a lot of time testing
> >>that the new changes don't break the old code.
> >
> >
> >This is a good idea.  Then when the 2.16 release is out the 
> >elf32-arm.h and elfarm-oabi.c files could be deleted.
> 
> But, if someone complained and we got convinced that we *did* need the 
> old, old ABI, then we might get stuck trying to make changes in two 
> places?  I like the obsoletion idea, but I'd be happy to live with 
> elf32-arm.h for one more release, before reorganizing.

I am entirely willing to tell them to go back to 2.15.  This thing is
_dead_.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-02 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-01 21:10 Mark Mitchell
2004-11-02 10:29 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-02 14:56   ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-02 15:04     ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-02 15:08       ` Ian Lance Taylor
2004-11-02 15:11         ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-02 15:17       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-02 15:21         ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-02 15:29           ` Nick Clifton
2004-11-02 15:33             ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-02 15:43               ` Nick Clifton
2004-11-02 16:24                 ` Mark Mitchell
2004-11-02 16:31                   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-11-02 16:42                     ` Mark Mitchell
2004-11-03 15:05                       ` Obsoleting elfarm-oabi [was Re: PATCH: Reduce size of SymbianOS DLLs] Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-03 15:25                         ` Nick Clifton
2004-11-03 15:57                         ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-04  8:52                           ` Nick Clifton
2004-11-02 17:44                     ` PATCH: Reduce size of SymbianOS DLLs Mark Mitchell
2004-11-02 15:59               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-11-02 16:01                 ` Richard Earnshaw
2004-11-03 17:24 ` Richard Earnshaw

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