1 Fundamental design decision: 2 3 - the sizes of external and internal types are assumed to be the same. 4 This leaves byte ordering aside. While assuming this the code can be 5 greatly simplified and speed increases. Since no change violating this 6 assumption is in sight this is believed to be a worthwhile optimization. 7 8 - the ABI of the backend modules is not guaranteed. Really, not guarantee 9 whatsoever. We are enforcing this in the code. The modules and their 10 users must match. No third-party EBL module are supported or allowed. 11 The only reason there are separate modules is to not have the code for 12 all architectures in all the binaries. 13
