LIB BFD, the Binary File Descriptor Library

First Edition--BFD version < 3.0

April 1991

• Introduction
  • History
  • How To Use BFD
  • What BFD Version 2 Can Do
    • Information Loss
    • The BFD canonical object-file format
• BFD front end
  • typedef bfd
  • Error reporting
    • Type bfd_error_type
      • bfd_get_error
      • bfd_set_error
      • bfd_errmsg
      • bfd_perror
    • BFD error handler
      • bfd_set_error_handler
      • bfd_set_error_program_name
  • Symbols
    • bfd_get_reloc_upper_bound
    • bfd_canonicalize_reloc
    • bfd_set_reloc
    • bfd_set_file_flags
    • bfd_set_start_address
    • bfd_get_mtime
    • bfd_get_size
    • bfd_get_gp_size
    • bfd_set_gp_size
    • bfd_scan_vma
    • bfd_copy_private_bfd_data
    • bfd_merge_private_bfd_data
    • bfd_set_private_flags
    • stuff
  • Memory usage
  • Initialization
    • bfd_init
  • Sections
    • Section input
    • Section output
    • Link orders
    • typedef asection
    • Section prototypes
      • bfd_get_section_by_name
      • bfd_make_section_old_way
      • bfd_make_section_anyway
      • bfd_make_section
      • bfd_set_section_flags
      • bfd_map_over_sections
      • bfd_set_section_size
      • bfd_set_section_contents
      • bfd_get_section_contents
      • bfd_copy_private_section_data
  • Symbols
    • Reading symbols
    • Writing symbols
    • Mini Symbols
    • typedef asymbol
    • Symbol handling functions
      • bfd_get_symtab_upper_bound
      • bfd_is_local_label
      • bfd_canonicalize_symtab
      • bfd_set_symtab
      • bfd_print_symbol_vandf
      • bfd_make_empty_symbol
      • bfd_make_debug_symbol
      • bfd_decode_symclass
      • bfd_symbol_info
      • bfd_copy_private_symbol_data
  • Archives
    • bfd_get_next_mapent
    • bfd_set_archive_head
    • bfd_openr_next_archived_file
  • File formats
    • bfd_check_format
    • bfd_check_format_matches
    • bfd_set_format
    • bfd_format_string
  • Relocations
    • typedef arelent
      • enum complain_overflow
      • reloc_howto_type
      • The HOWTO Macro
      • bfd_get_reloc_size
      • arelent_chain
      • bfd_perform_relocation
      • bfd_install_relocation
  • The howto manager
    • bfd_reloc_code_type
    • bfd_reloc_type_lookup
    • bfd_default_reloc_type_lookup
    • bfd_get_reloc_code_name
    • bfd_generic_relax_section
    • bfd_generic_get_relocated_section_contents
  • Core files
    • bfd_core_file_failing_command
    • bfd_core_file_failing_signal
    • core_file_matches_executable_p
  • Targets
    • bfd_target
      • bfd_find_target
      • bfd_target_list
  • Architectures
    • bfd_architecture
    • bfd_arch_info
      • bfd_printable_name
      • bfd_scan_arch
      • bfd_arch_get_compatible
      • bfd_default_arch_struct
      • bfd_set_arch_info
      • bfd_default_set_arch_mach
      • bfd_get_arch
      • bfd_get_mach
      • bfd_arch_bits_per_byte
      • bfd_arch_bits_per_address
      • bfd_default_compatible
      • bfd_default_scan
      • bfd_get_arch_info
      • bfd_lookup_arch
      • bfd_printable_arch_mach
  • Opening and closing BFDs
    • bfd_openr
    • bfd_fdopenr
    • bfd_openstreamr
    • bfd_openw
    • bfd_close
    • bfd_close_all_done
    • bfd_create
    • bfd_alloc_by_size_t
  • Internal functions
    • bfd_write_bigendian_4byte_int
    • bfd_put_size
    • bfd_get_size
    • bfd_h_put_size
    • bfd_log2
  • File caching
    • BFD_CACHE_MAX_OPEN macro
    • bfd_last_cache
    • bfd_cache_lookup
    • bfd_cache_init
    • bfd_cache_close
    • bfd_open_file
    • bfd_cache_lookup_worker
  • Linker Functions
    • Creating a linker hash table
    • Adding symbols to the hash table
      • Differing file formats
      • Adding symbols from an object file
      • Adding symbols from an archive
    • Performing the final link
      • Information provided by the linker
      • Relocating the section contents
      • Writing the symbol table
      • bfd_link_split_section
  • Hash Tables
    • Creating and freeing a hash table
    • Looking up or entering a string
    • Traversing a hash table
    • Deriving a new hash table type
      • Define the derived structures
      • Write the derived creation routine
      • Write other derived routines
• BFD back ends
  • a.out backends
    • Relocations
    • Internal entry points
      • aout_size_swap_exec_header_in
      • aout_size_swap_exec_header_out
      • aout_size_some_aout_object_p
      • aout_size_mkobject
      • aout_size_machine_type
      • aout_size_set_arch_mach
      • aout_size_new_section_hook
  • coff backends
    • Porting to a new version of coff
    • How the coff backend works
      • File layout
      • Bit twiddling
      • Symbol reading
      • Symbol writing
      • coff_symbol_type
      • bfd_coff_backend_data
      • Writing relocations
      • Reading linenumbers
      • Reading relocations
  • ELF backends
    • bfd_elf_find_section
• Index

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