The function bfd_hash_lookup
is used both to look up a
string in the hash table and to create a new entry.
If the create argument is FALSE
, bfd_hash_lookup
will look up a string. If the string is found, it will
returns a pointer to a struct bfd_hash_entry
. If the
string is not found in the table bfd_hash_lookup
will
return NULL
. You should not modify any of the fields in
the returns struct bfd_hash_entry
.
If the create argument is TRUE
, the string will be
entered into the hash table if it is not already there.
Either way a pointer to a struct bfd_hash_entry
will be
returned, either to the existing structure or to a newly
created one. In this case, a NULL
return means that an
error occurred.
If the create argument is TRUE
, and a new entry is
created, the copy argument is used to decide whether to
copy the string onto the hash table objalloc or not. If
copy is passed as FALSE
, you must be careful not to
deallocate or modify the string as long as the hash table
exists.