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<h4 class="subsection">2.7.3 Mini Symbols</h4>
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<p>Mini symbols provide read-only access to the symbol table.
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They use less memory space, but require more time to access.
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They can be useful for tools like nm or objdump, which may
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have to handle symbol tables of extremely large executables.
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<p>The <code>bfd_read_minisymbols</code> function will read the symbols
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into memory in an internal form. It will return a <code>void *</code>
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pointer to a block of memory, a symbol count, and the size of
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each symbol. The pointer is allocated using <code>malloc</code>, and
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should be freed by the caller when it is no longer needed.
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<p>The function <code>bfd_minisymbol_to_symbol</code> will take a pointer
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to a minisymbol, and a pointer to a structure returned by
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<code>bfd_make_empty_symbol</code>, and return a <code>asymbol</code> structure.
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<code>bfd_make_empty_symbol</code> which was passed in.
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