On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Manuel López-Ibáñez <lopeziba...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23 June 2016 at 18:02, Pedro Alves <pal...@redhat.com> wrote: >> But on the other hand, the idea of maintaining multiple gnulib >> copies isn't that appealing either. Considering that the long >> term desired result ends up with a libiberty that is no longer a >> portability library, but instead only an utilities library, then to >> get to that stage, the other programs in the binutils-gdb repo which >> rely on libiberty too, binutils proper, gas, ld, gold, etc., need >> to be converted to use gnulib as well. And then a single >> gnulib sounds even more appealing. > > AFAICT, the only "utilities" found in libiberty not appropriate for > gnulib is the demangler. That would be more appropriate for a > libdemangler library shared among all gnutools.
Does gnulib have a functional equivalent to the pex and simple-object mini-libraries? Ian