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Re: Opcodes and bfd & plugins.
cgd@broadcom.com writes:
> At Fri, 1 Aug 2003 18:05:36 +0000 (UTC), "Ian Lance Taylor" wrote:
> > That said, if you develop patches for a plugable interface, and they
> > do not impose a maintenance burden and do not make the program any
> > slower in the normal case, they would probably be accepted. You might
> > be able to build on top of the gas emulation support, although I don't
> > know what state that is in.
>
> Personally, I'd suspect that they'd raise concerns about people
> developing proprietary opcode plug-ins, that they didn't want to
> release source to...
Hmmm, good point. Of course I can't imagine who would buy a processor
for which they didn't get documentation, and I can't imagine who would
want to use the GNU tools if they didn't get source. But you're right
that it might be a bad idea to even let some vendor start down that
path.
Ian