From: hans AT brandinnovators DOT com (Hans Zuidam) Subject: Re: Nobody in the world understands Gnu's 'ld'. 26 Mar 1997 12:44:10 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199703261255.NAA00648.cygnus.gnu-win32@truk.brandinnovators.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Original-To: shebs AT cygnus DOT com (Stan Shebs) Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: from Stan Shebs at "Mar 25, 97 12:03:42 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr (root) writes: [ a lot of ramblings about the GNU linker, typical for someone who hasn't seen that much ] > Stan Shebs wrote: > ... It's not fiendishly difficult, but it True, only fiendishly tedious... :-) A sad thing about the current GNU code is that it starts to show it's age. Look at the average gdb debugger interface: cut and paste programming and lots of comments about the writer being uncertain if [s]he's doing the right thing. Then when you write your own interface, you are forced to do the same, the only other option would be to rewrite major parts. Another sad thing is that it works so damn well! If you just close your eyes and go ahead with implementing those changes needed for your particular environment, you always end up with something that works reliable. That is when you remember the old proverb: if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Regards, Hans -- H. Zuidam E-Mail: hans AT brandinnovators DOT com Brand Innovators B.V. P-Mail: P.O. Box 1377 de Pinckart 54 5602 BJ Eindhoven, The Netherlands 5674 CC Nuenen Tel. +31 40 2631134, Fax. +31 40 2831138 - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".