Re: libbfd and/or libopcodes not reentrant

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Jonas Maebe <address@hidden> writes:

> Under "general BFD programming guidelines" in
> "binutils/bfd/bfdint.texi", it is stated that the goal is to make sure
> libbfd is fully reentrant. It is nowhere stated that isn't currently
> the case, but it definitely isn't (or libopcodes isn't).

Thanks for the bug report.  In fact, we know that libbfd is not
reentrant.  It's not even close.  The guideline is intended to apply
to new code added to BFD, but since there are many contributors even
that guideline is not followed particularly well.

BFD will only become reentrant if there is significant volunteer work
to make it reentrant.

Ian