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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
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<!-- This file documents the GNU linker LD
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(Linaro_Binutils-2017.02)
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version 2.27.0.
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Copyright (C) 1991-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3
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or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation;
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with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no
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Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the
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section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". -->
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<!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 5.2, http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ -->
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<head>
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<title>LD: BFD outline</title>
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<meta name="description" content="LD: BFD outline">
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<meta name="keywords" content="LD: BFD outline">
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
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<link href="index.html#Top" rel="start" title="Top">
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<link href="LD-Index.html#LD-Index" rel="index" title="LD Index">
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<link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents">
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<link href="BFD.html#BFD" rel="up" title="BFD">
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<link href="BFD-information-loss.html#BFD-information-loss" rel="next" title="BFD information loss">
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<link href="BFD.html#BFD" rel="prev" title="BFD">
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</head>
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<body lang="en" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080" alink="#FF0000">
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<a name="BFD-outline"></a>
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<div class="header">
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<p>
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Up: <a href="BFD.html#BFD" accesskey="u" rel="up">BFD</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="LD-Index.html#LD-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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</div>
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<hr>
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<a name="How-It-Works_003a-An-Outline-of-BFD"></a>
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<h3 class="section">5.1 How It Works: An Outline of BFD</h3>
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<a name="index-opening-object-files"></a>
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<p>When an object file is opened, BFD subroutines automatically determine
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the format of the input object file. They then build a descriptor in
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memory with pointers to routines that will be used to access elements of
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the object file’s data structures.
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</p>
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<p>As different information from the object files is required,
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BFD reads from different sections of the file and processes them.
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For example, a very common operation for the linker is processing symbol
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tables. Each BFD back end provides a routine for converting
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between the object file’s representation of symbols and an internal
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canonical format. When the linker asks for the symbol table of an object
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file, it calls through a memory pointer to the routine from the
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relevant BFD back end which reads and converts the table into a canonical
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form. The linker then operates upon the canonical form. When the link is
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finished and the linker writes the output file’s symbol table,
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another BFD back end routine is called to take the newly
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created symbol table and convert it into the chosen output format.
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</p>
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<table class="menu" border="0" cellspacing="0">
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="BFD-information-loss.html#BFD-information-loss" accesskey="1">BFD information loss</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Information Loss
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</td></tr>
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="Canonical-format.html#Canonical-format" accesskey="2">Canonical format</a>:</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">The BFD canonical object-file format
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</td></tr>
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</table>
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