[PATCH 0/4] Review and consolidate target conditionals in peXXigen.c
Project / Subsystem
binutils / binutils
Date
2026-09-13
Proposer
Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
Source type
public_inbox
Consensus
Proposed
Sentiment
—/10
Technical tradeoffs
- • Improves code clarity and reduces maintenance overhead.
- • Removes support for obsolete targets, potentially simplifying the codebase.
All attributes
- project
- binutils
- subsystem
- binutils
- patch_id
- —
- discussion_id
- 20260913123323.9734-1-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
- source_type
- public_inbox
- title
- [PATCH 0/4] Review and consolidate target conditionals in peXXigen.c
- headline
- Review and consolidate target conditionals in peXXigen.c
- tldr
- Consolidate and clean up PE target conditional logic in BFD.
- proposer
- Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
- consensus
- Proposed
- outcome
- proposed
- sentiment_score
- —
- technical_tradeoffs
-
- • Improves code clarity and reduces maintenance overhead.
- • Removes support for obsolete targets, potentially simplifying the codebase.
- series_id
- binutils:review and consolidate target conditionals in pexxigen.c
- series_role
- cover
- series_parts
- []
- tags
-
- • bfd
- • pe
- • refactoring
- • maintainability
- • code quality
- bugzilla_url
- —
- date
- 2026-09-13T00:00:00.000Z
[PATCH 0/4] Review and consolidate target conditionals in peXXigen.c
This patch series reviews and refactors target conditional logic within bfd/peXXigen.c. It aims to discard historical cruft, such as obsolete PE MIPS support, and consolidate the logic for distinguishing PE32 and PE32+ formats. The changes improve code maintainability and reduce the potential for errors by simplifying how different PE targets are handled.