From: ian AT cygnus DOT com (Ian Lance Taylor) Subject: Re: Mr Taylor surely understands ld: a correction to my previous post 27 Mar 1997 08:17:37 -0800 Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <9703261813.AA22128.cygnus.gnu-win32@tweedledumb.cygnus.com> Original-To: root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr Original-Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In cygnus.gnu-win32 root AT jacob DOT remcomp DOT fr writes: [ Various complaints about modularity and the like which I am not going to address. Different people can reasonably have different opinions on these issues. ] >I still remain convinced that only Steve can fix this. It is a pity that he >is gone. This means that this problem will remain as it is in the foreseeable >future. I just couldn't let this comment pass, though. Steve is a great guy, and a friend, but he is not the only person who can work on the linker. In fact, when we did the last major overhaul of the linker, implementing the interface documented in bfd/linker.c, he designed it, but I wrote it. I understand the linker as well as he does. In fact, the notion that only one person can work on a particular program is nonsense. I've never seen a useful program that I could not understand and modify, if I was willing to take the time. (This is not meant as a challenge!) Whether whatever Windows linker problem there may be will be fixed is a different issue. Steve used Windows, and wrote the original gnu-win32 library, and cared about making the linker do the right thing under Windows. I don't use Windows, and although I would be happy to help anybody fix any possible problems of the linker under Windows insofar as I am able, I'm not likely to do anything about it myself. I have no idea what Cygnus's plans are in regards to the linker under Windows. I have no idea whether there really are any linker problems, or how serious they are if they exist. Ian - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".