[LLVMdev] ELF / COFF Summary

[Andrew Lenharth]

> In the case of the ELF writer, we want a similar structure.  Anything that 
> can be simple exposed as data should be (e.g. whether the target is 32- or 
> 64-bit), anything more complex should be exposed as virtual methods that 
> are overloaded.  The ELF spec makes it very clear what parts of the file 
> format are common across targets and what the variations are caused by.

The only catch here is elf32 and elf64 use different data structures.
Other than than, I agree.  I suspect we are going to need two base
implementations to handle that difference.

Andrew