On 08/08/2018 04:39 PM, Cary Coutant wrote: >>> Another is that people report bugs about leaked memory. Generally >>> that's also a "don't care", since none of "ld", "as" or any of the >>> binutils run as servers. >>> >>> Finally, when anyone wants to make changes to data structures or >>> functions used by all the backends, we have to change all this old >>> code too. >> >> Why isn't this done on Gold though? > > Why isn't *what* done on gold? Gold is ELF-only and doesn't use BFD.
Development of new features. I know that Gold is ELF-only that's why I was wondering why BFD isn't just kept in maintenance mode. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel