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- o - A source of space lossage is that all the target-dependent
- code is in a single bfd_target structure. Hence all the code
- for *writing* object files is still pulled into all the applications
- that only care about *reading* (gdb, nm, objdump), while gas
- has to carry along all the unneded baggage for reading objects.
- And so one. This would be a much more substantial change,
- and the payoff would be less (essentially none if bfd is
- used as a shared library).
+ o - A source of space lossage is that all the target-dependent code
+ is in a single bfd_target structure. Hence all the code for
+ *writing* object files is still pulled into all the applications
+ that only care about *reading* (gdb, nm, objdump), while gas has
+ to carry along all the unneeded baggage for reading objects. And
+ so on. This would be a substantial change, and the payoff would
+ not all that great (essentially none if bfd is used as a shared
+ library).
o - The storage needed by BFD data structures is also larger than strictly
needed. This may be difficult to do much about.