From:	"Tim Van Holder" <tim DOT van DOT holder AT pandora DOT be>
To:	<djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Cc:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT softhome DOT net>
Subject:	RE: ANNOUNCE: Fileutils 4.0 beta 2
Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:33:40 +0200
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> > (and I don't know if bfd has the needed hooks
> > for it at the moment).
> 
> I've already checked and it doesn't. bfd only supports fixed size file 
> headers and since the stub is part of the file header it does mean that 
> only fixed size stubs are supported.
Is this a hard requirement, or are the BFD developers willing to look
into supporting variable-sized headers?
I expect this would come in handy in other circumstances as well. Having
seperate 'architectures' for each type of DJGPP header would probably be
an OK stop-gap measure, but it's hardly ideal.

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