Jan Beulich jbeulich@suse.com
Tue Dec 9 15:34:33 GMT 2025

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On 20.11.2025 11:57, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> --- binutils-gdb.orig/bfd/opncls.c
> +++ binutils-gdb/bfd/opncls.c
> @@ -496,6 +496,47 @@ bfd_openstreamr (const char *filename, c
>  
>  /*
>  FUNCTION
> +	bfd_openr_fake_archive
> +
> +SYNOPSIS
> +	bfd *bfd_openr_fake_archive (bfd *fbfd);
> +
> +DESCRIPTION
> +	Open a list of BFDs starting from @var{filename} as an artificial

Elsewhere in this file @var{...} refers to function parameters; there is ...

> +	archive.  Subsequent members of the archive are indicated by each
> +	BFD's proxy_handle.abfd member, with the final one holding a NULL
> +	pointer there.  The newly opened archive will necessarily also be
> +	a thin archive as there will be member files only to refer to and
> +	no containing archive file.
> +*/
> +
> +bfd *
> +bfd_openr_fake_archive (bfd *fbfd)

... no such function parameter here, though.

Overall I feel like the underlying idea of "file collections" (plus why /
where / when it's useful) isn't explained sufficiently in the description.
Maybe that would become more clear by reading the next patch, but I think
the patch here would best be self-contained.

Jan

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