Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2000 14:16:34 -0800 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> To: chris@calldei.com Cc: James Howard <howardjp@wam.umd.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libelf and Elf Interface Routines Message-ID: <55463.947888194@monkeys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 14 Jan 2000 15:44:46 -0600. <20000114154446.Q2463@holly.calldei.com>
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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
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