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<h3 class="section">2.6 Sections</h3>
<p>The raw data contained within a BFD is maintained through the
section abstraction. A single BFD may have any number of
sections. It keeps hold of them by pointing to the first;
each one points to the next in the list.
<p>Sections are supported in BFD in <code>section.c</code>.
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