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Re: [hjl@valinux.com: Re: A PE patch.]
> >No. Think "cross compiler".
>
> A grep of "include <" in bfd seems to unearth a number of system includes.
> Are you saying that you have to duplicate every header that you need to
> use in bfd? I don't see the reason for that, since the headers already
> exist in the tree.
No, just the ones that define structures needed to read/write objects
and executables. Plus, the bfd definitions use char[] to avoid
structure packing problems and alignment.
And, the win32 headers do *not* exist in the binutils tree. They'd
only exist in a merged tree like you use.