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								<title>Reading Symbols - Untitled</title>
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								This file documents the BFD library.
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								Copyright (C) 1991, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006, 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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								<a name="Reading-Symbols"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Writing-Symbols.html#Writing-Symbols">Writing Symbols</a>,
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								Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="Symbols.html#Symbols">Symbols</a>,
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								Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Symbols.html#Symbols">Symbols</a>
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								<h4 class="subsection">2.7.1 Reading symbols</h4>
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								<p>There are two stages to reading a symbol table from a BFD:
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								allocating storage, and the actual reading process. This is an
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								excerpt from an application which reads the symbol table:
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								<pre class="example">              long storage_needed;
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								              asymbol **symbol_table;
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								              long number_of_symbols;
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								              long i;
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								              storage_needed = bfd_get_symtab_upper_bound (abfd);
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								              if (storage_needed < 0)
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								                FAIL
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								              if (storage_needed == 0)
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								                return;
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								              symbol_table = xmalloc (storage_needed);
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								                ...
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								              number_of_symbols =
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								                 bfd_canonicalize_symtab (abfd, symbol_table);
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								              if (number_of_symbols < 0)
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								                FAIL
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								              for (i = 0; i < number_of_symbols; i++)
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								                process_symbol (symbol_table[i]);
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								   <p>All storage for the symbols themselves is in an objalloc
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								connected to the BFD; it is freed when the BFD is closed.
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