From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 14 14:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from monkeys.com (i180.value.net [206.14.136.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFC8214CF1 for ; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:16:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rfg@monkeys.com) Received: from monkeys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by monkeys.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA55465; Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:16:34 -0800 (PST) To: chris@calldei.com Cc: James Howard , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:44:46 -0600. <20000114154446.Q2463@holly.calldei.com> Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:16:34 -0800 Message-ID: <55463.947888194@monkeys.com> From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20000114154446.Q2463@holly.calldei.com>, you wrote: >On Fri, Jan 14, 2000, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: >> (I never asked what the letters B-F-D stood for. I always figured >> that they had the obvious meaning. :-) > > BFD stands for Binary File Descriptor. Oh sure. That's one interpretation. However given the amount of hoopla that Cygnus tried to attach to the initial roll-out of this library, and given that the early releases of libbfd actually broke a lot more things that they ever benefitted, I personally was always more inclined towards the belief that `BFD' actually stood for `Big F***ing Deal', as in ``Who gives a damn?'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message