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+		      ToDo list for elfutils                      -*-outline-*-
+                      ----------------------
+
+Time-stamp: <2003-08-07 12:52:49 drepper>
+
+* mkinstalldirs
+
+  Remove everywhere.  Use mkdir -p.
+
+* libelf:
+
+** verify section
+
+   Currently the elf_update function trusts the user blindly if the
+   ELF_F_LAYOUT flag is set.  This is OK if the data is prepared by a
+   ELF_C_NULL call but not if the user prepared the data herself
+
+** break out archive handling from elf_begin
+
+   The handling of archives (especially of the symbol tables) must be
+   broken out of elf_begin.  There are several different forms of
+   archives and only when having the archive handling separately this
+   remains maintainable.
+
+
+* libdwarf
+
+** Should we do more error checking?
+
+   Most functions don't check whether they get a NULL value passed for
+   a pointer argument.  It could be argued that this is OK since it's
+   a bug inthe program.  But perhaps one could catch the case and return
+   an error which would allow the program using libdwarf to have fewer
+   places with error checking.
+
+** More memory access checks needed
+
+   All accesses to the debug sections should make sure the offsets are
+   valid.  This is currently especially a problem with leb128 accesses.
+
+** Low level macro information operations
+
+   in 5.11.3 are not implemented.  gcc currently does not emit this
+   information so I cannot test it.
+
+** Rename dwarf_getabbrev
+
+** dwarf_loclist()
+
+   This function and its interface seem to be misdesigned.  The specification
+   is unclear and its changed between v2 and v2.1.  Other implementation
+   implement even different behavior.
+
+
+* nm:
+
+** add demangler support
+
+   Use demangler from libiberty.
+
+** add support to read debugging symbols
+
+   Implement -l option for BSD and POSIX format
+
+
+* strip:
+
+** support SHT_SYMTAB_SHNDX
+
+   should be removed if not needed anymore
+
+* ld:
+
+** sanity check .rel sh_info content
+
+   the sh_info of all .rel sections with the same name must point to
+   sections which also have the same name
+
+** use ld.so.conf
+
+   to locate shared libraries also use /etc/ld.so.conf
+
+** handle object files for different architectures
+
+   ld.so is expected to ignore object files for different architectures and
+   continue looking for a matching file (e.g., ignore 32-bit binaries on
+   64-bit platforms and vice versa).  We probably need the same in ld.
+
+** reuse after elf_end
+
+   Some files are closed using elf_end.  They are removed from memory only
+   if no reference is left (especially for archives this is a problem).
+   The old mapping should be reused in that case.  The problem is worse
+   for files which are not mapped read-only (archives again).
+
+
+** size for STT_SECTION entries
+
+   The STT_SECTION entries have zero for the size but can easily get
+   the size of the section.
+
+* elflint
+
+** additional checks
+
+   1st GOT entry == _DYNAMIC
+
+   if TEXTREL check whether any relocation touches RO segment
+
+   if TEXTREL not set check that no relocation touches RO segment
+
+   check versioning info:
+
+     always BASE in verdef
+     sh_size/sh_entsize matches last offset != 0
+
+   check whether any relocation is for a merge-able section
+
+** possibly missing tests
+
+   at most one extended section index table for a symtab
+
+   no extended section index table != ET_REL
+
+   no extended section index table for SHT_DYNSYM
+
+** relax
+
+   prelink generated files
+
+
+* mcs
+
+  Sun has it.  Can modify sections which are not in segments.
+
+     -a string
+           Append string to the comment section of the ELF object
+           files. If  string contains embedded blanks, it must be
+           enclosed in quotation marks.
+
+     -c    Compress the contents of the comment  section  of  the
+           ELF  object  files. All duplicate entries are removed.
+           The ordering of the  remaining  entries  is  not  dis-
+           turbed.
+
+     -d    Delete the contents of the comment  section  from  the
+           ELF  object  files. The section header for the comment
+           section is also removed.
+
+     -n name
+           Specify the name of the comment section to  access  if
+           other  than  .comment.  By default, mcs deals with the
+           section named .comment. This option  can  be  used  to
+           specify  another  section.  mcs  can  take multiple -n
+           options to allow for specification of   multiple  sec-
+           tion comments.
+
+     -p    Print the contents of the comment section on the stan-
+           dard  output.  Each  section  printed is tagged by the
+           name of the file from which it  was  extracted,  using
+           the  format  file[member_name]:  for archive files and
+           file:  for other files.
+
+     -V    Print on standard error the version number of mcs.
+
+Local Variables:
+eval:(hide-body)
+End: