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Copyright (C) 1991-2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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(a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is:
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A GNU Manual
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(b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is:
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<link href="BFD-Index.html#BFD-Index" rel="index" title="BFD Index">
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<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
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<p>
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Next: <a href="How-It-Works.html#How-It-Works" accesskey="n" rel="next">How It Works</a>, Previous: <a href="Overview.html#Overview" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Overview</a>, Up: <a href="Overview.html#Overview" accesskey="u" rel="up">Overview</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="BFD-Index.html#BFD-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<a name="History-1"></a>
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<h3 class="section">1.1 History</h3>
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<p>One spur behind BFD was the desire, on the part of the GNU 960 team at
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Intel Oregon, for interoperability of applications on their COFF and
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b.out file formats. Cygnus was providing GNU support for the team, and
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was contracted to provide the required functionality.
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</p>
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<p>The name came from a conversation David Wallace was having with Richard
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Stallman about the library: RMS said that it would be quite hard—David
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said “BFD”. Stallman was right, but the name stuck.
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</p>
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<p>At the same time, Ready Systems wanted much the same thing, but for
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different object file formats: IEEE-695, Oasys, Srecords, a.out and 68k
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coff.
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</p>
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<p>BFD was first implemented by members of Cygnus Support; Steve
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Chamberlain (<code>sac@cygnus.com</code>), John Gilmore
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(<code>gnu@cygnus.com</code>), K. Richard Pixley (<code>rich@cygnus.com</code>)
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and David Henkel-Wallace (<code>gumby@cygnus.com</code>).
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