From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out2.suse.de (smtp-out2.suse.de [IPv6:2001:67c:2178:6::1d]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EA26639960E2 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:21:25 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.1 sourceware.org EA26639960E2 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=suse.de Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=suse.de Received: from relay2.suse.de (relay2.suse.de [149.44.160.134]) by smtp-out2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2C9A1F8DA; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.de; s=susede2_rsa; t=1668691285; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=HwlyxVsgpyzS8jVCyPJ/TJsaM66L0wZMJSWh8TojsHo=; b=Q15fBDhQ2qb+wLvcj7Z0fvyzgwWc6oGHA0TZR2v0KLHWXpfeituF0OH7bqx7/kJzWACQJL 2sKCvCuZqgwdJhCXJ8Bya+p2Ksv4KAP5g8YaZzuisCJ9Pm5qzCm3EGmhZtnM0JGB08WeON XIrKa7BM+EWDo0uZN7lNrTARjjqSWyM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=ed25519-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=suse.de; s=susede2_ed25519; t=1668691285; h=from:from:reply-to:date:date:message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:cc: mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=HwlyxVsgpyzS8jVCyPJ/TJsaM66L0wZMJSWh8TojsHo=; b=5xgmBl9KVa3RHrZs4K9Byhke3gsF6Wadag3TU7IKct4e1xsLLHfszuvFfKfz9s9wNi7QCN h1inGvz7WbWwwSDA== Received: from wotan.suse.de (wotan.suse.de [10.160.0.1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id EC7E52C141; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wotan.suse.de (Postfix, from userid 10510) id E475E635A; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wotan.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32F76266; Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2022 13:21:24 +0000 (UTC) From: Michael Matz To: Mike Frysinger cc: Jan Beulich , Alan Modra , Brett Werling , binutils@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] readelf: use fseeko for elf files >= 2 GiB on x86_64-mingw32 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20221114150348.112815-1-bwerl.dev@gmail.com> <8c1844c9-4b04-0200-c24e-c33009562477@suse.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (LSU 67 2015-01-07) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,DKIM_VALID_EF,KAM_NUMSUBJECT,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,TXREP autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.6 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.6 (2021-04-09) on server2.sourceware.org List-Id: Hello, On Thu, 17 Nov 2022, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > No. I'm claiming that moving to gnulib is work (even if perhaps not > > much?) and change and I (personally) don't see the need to invest into > > that work and deal with the change. Had you asked "should I look into > > using gnulib in bfd" my answer would have been "well, try it, why not?". > > But you asked "should _we_ look" (aka should someone do that), hence my > > answer was in the line of "perhaps, but why bother?". > > you're proposing adding a not insignificant amount of custom portability > logic I'm not proposing anything, but I guess I consider the amount of portability code to be actually insignificant in this case. > and making the readelf code harder to understand & maintain while > also not fixing the same bug in other binutils/ tools. it is perfectly > reasonable to ask you to not add tech debt & make the code base worse > off for everyone else to maintain, and instead focus on a common > solution that the GNU project is already heavily invested in. this is, > of course, the "GNU Binutils" project. Yeah, well, until someone does the work I guess we'll never know. Ciao, Michael.