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333965Sjdp o - A source of space lossage is that all the target-dependent code
433965Sjdp     is in a single bfd_target structure.  Hence all the code for
533965Sjdp     *writing* object files is still pulled into all the applications
633965Sjdp     that only care about *reading* (gdb, nm, objdump), while gas has
733965Sjdp     to carry along all the unneeded baggage for reading objects.  And
833965Sjdp     so on.  This would be a substantial change, and the payoff would
933965Sjdp     not all that great (essentially none if bfd is used as a shared
1033965Sjdp     library).
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1233965Sjdp o - The storage needed by BFD data structures is also larger than strictly
1333965Sjdp     needed.  This may be difficult to do much about.
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1533965Sjdp o - implement bfd_abort, which should close the bfd but not alter the
1633965Sjdp     filesystem.
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1833965Sjdp o - update the bfd doc; write a how-to-write-a-backend doc, take out
1933965Sjdp     the stupid quips and fill in all the blanks.
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2133965Sjdp o - upgrade the reloc handling as per Steve's suggestion.
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