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diff --git a/src/README b/src/README deleted file mode 100644 index f7e4b61e..00000000 --- a/src/README +++ /dev/null @@ -1,19 +0,0 @@ -Fundamental design decision: - -- the sizes of external and internal types are assumed to be the same. - This leaves byte ordering aside. While assuming this the code can be - greatly simplified and speed increases. Since no change violating this - assumption is in sight this is believed to be a worthwhile optimization. - -- the ABI of the backend modules is not guaranteed. Really, not guarantee - whatsoever. We are enforcing this in the code. The modules and their - users must match. No third-party EBL module are supported or allowed. - The only reason there are separate modules is to not have the code for - all architectures in all the binaries. - -- although the public libraries (libasm, libdw) have a stable API and are - backwards ABI compatible they, and the elfutils tools, do depend on each - others internals, and on internals of libelf to provide their interfaces. - So they should always be upgraded in lockstep when packaging the tools - and libraries separately. For one example of how to do that, see the - config/elfutils.spec. |