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Re: PATCH: Add archive support to ELF

On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 10:32:15PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> "H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > This patch supports "readelf -s libfoo.a".
> 
> But the whole point of readelf is that it *doesn't* use the BFD
> library.

Can you compile readelf without including "bfd.h"? Claiming readelf
doesn't use BFD is misleading.

> 
> The patch seems misguided to me.  If you want readelf to support
> archives, it should includes its own code to read ELF archives.

I can certainly modify readelf to read archives without -lbfd. I can
even remove

#include "bfd.h"

But since readelf is the part of binutils, why do I have to reinvent
the wheel?


H.J.
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