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								<h4 class="subsection">2.18.2 Looking up or entering a string</h4>
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								<p><a name="index-bfd_005fhash_005flookup-1388"></a>The function <code>bfd_hash_lookup</code> is used both to look up a
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								string in the hash table and to create a new entry.
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								   <p>If the <var>create</var> argument is <code>FALSE</code>, <code>bfd_hash_lookup</code>
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								will look up a string.  If the string is found, it will
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								returns a pointer to a <code>struct bfd_hash_entry</code>.  If the
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								string is not found in the table <code>bfd_hash_lookup</code> will
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								return <code>NULL</code>.  You should not modify any of the fields in
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								the returns <code>struct bfd_hash_entry</code>.
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								   <p>If the <var>create</var> argument is <code>TRUE</code>, the string will be
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								entered into the hash table if it is not already there. 
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								Either way a pointer to a <code>struct bfd_hash_entry</code> will be
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								returned, either to the existing structure or to a newly
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								created one.  In this case, a <code>NULL</code> return means that an
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								   <p>If the <var>create</var> argument is <code>TRUE</code>, and a new entry is
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								created, the <var>copy</var> argument is used to decide whether to
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								copy the string onto the hash table objalloc or not.  If
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								<var>copy</var> is passed as <code>FALSE</code>, you must be careful not to
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								deallocate or modify the string as long as the hash table
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