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<a name="elf"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="mmo.html#mmo">mmo</a>,
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<h3 class="section">3.4 ELF backends</h3>
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<p>BFD support for ELF formats is being worked on. 
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Currently, the best supported back ends are for sparc and i386
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(running svr4 or Solaris 2).
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   <p>Documentation of the internals of the support code still needs
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to be written.  The code is changing quickly enough that we
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haven't bothered yet.
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<h5 class="subsubsection">3.4.0.1 <code>bfd_elf_find_section</code></h5>
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<p><strong>Synopsis</strong>
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<pre class="example">     struct elf_internal_shdr *bfd_elf_find_section (bfd *abfd, char *name);
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   <p><strong>Description</strong><br>
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Helper functions for GDB to locate the string tables. 
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Since BFD hides string tables from callers, GDB needs to use an
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internal hook to find them.  Sun's .stabstr, in particular,
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isn't even pointed to by the .stab section, so ordinary
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mechanisms wouldn't work to find it, even if we had some.
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