From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Henderson <rth@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
Cc: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>, binutils@sources.redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: bfd_read and bfd_write
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 12:21:00 -0000
Message-id: <20010905122109.A17937@redhat.com>
References: <20010905145037.K13524@bubble.sa.bigpond.net.au> <3B965696.70401@cygnus.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00042.html

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 12:45:10PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> rather than change the function signature, why not introduce a new 
> interface and then deprecate the old one?

Because then you'll never get rid of the old interface.
BFD already has way too much cruft as it is.


r~