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<h4 class="subsection">2.6.1 Section input</h4>
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<p>When a BFD is opened for reading, the section structures are
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created and attached to the BFD.
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<p>Each section has a name which describes the section in the
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outside world—for example, <code>a.out</code> would contain at least
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three sections, called <code>.text</code>, <code>.data</code> and <code>.bss</code>.
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<p>Names need not be unique; for example a COFF file may have several
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sections named <code>.data</code>.
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<p>Sometimes a BFD will contain more than the “natural” number of
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sections. A back end may attach other sections containing
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constructor data, or an application may add a section (using
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<code>bfd_make_section</code>) to the sections attached to an already open
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BFD. For example, the linker creates an extra section
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<code>COMMON</code> for each input file's BFD to hold information about
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common storage.
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<p>The raw data is not necessarily read in when
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the section descriptor is created. Some targets may leave the
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data in place until a <code>bfd_get_section_contents</code> call is
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made. Other back ends may read in all the data at once. For
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example, an S-record file has to be read once to determine the
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size of the data. An IEEE-695 file doesn't contain raw data in
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sections, but data and relocation expressions intermixed, so
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the data area has to be parsed to get out the data and
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relocations.
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