[linuxkernelnewbies] LIB BFD, the Binary File Descriptor Library - Table of Contents

[peter teoh]

http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/gnu/bfd/html_chapter/bfd_toc.html LIB BFD, the Binary File Descriptor Library First Edition--BFD version < 3.0 April 1991 {Steve Chamberlain} {Cygnus Support} Introduction History How To Use BFD What BFD Version 2 Can Do Information Loss The BFD canonical object-file format BFD front end typedef bfd Error reporting Type bfd_error_type bfd_get_error bfd_set_error bfd_errmsg bfd_perror BFD error handler bfd_set_error_handler bfd_set_error_program_name bfd_get_error_handler Symbols bfd_get_reloc_upper_bound bfd_canonicalize_reloc bfd_set_reloc bfd_set_file_flags bfd_set_start_address bfd_get_mtime bfd_get_size bfd_get_gp_size bfd_set_gp_size bfd_scan_vma bfd_copy_private_bfd_data bfd_merge_private_bfd_data bfd_set_private_flags stuff Memory usage Initialization bfd_init Sections Section input Section output Link orders typedef asection Section prototypes bfd_get_section_by_name bfd_make_section_old_way bfd_make_section_anyway bfd_make_section bfd_set_section_flags bfd_map_over_sections bfd_set_section_size bfd_set_section_contents bfd_get_section_contents bfd_copy_private_section_data Symbols Reading symbols Writing symbols Mini Symbols typedef asymbol Symbol handling functions bfd_get_symtab_upper_bound bfd_is_local_label bfd_is_local_label_name bfd_canonicalize_symtab bfd_set_symtab bfd_print_symbol_vandf bfd_make_empty_symbol bfd_make_debug_symbol bfd_decode_symclass bfd_symbol_info bfd_copy_private_symbol_data Archives bfd_get_next_mapent bfd_set_archive_head bfd_openr_next_archived_file File formats bfd_check_format bfd_check_format_matches bfd_set_format bfd_format_string Relocations typedef arelent enum complain_overflow reloc_howto_type The HOWTO Macro bfd_get_reloc_size arelent_chain bfd_check_overflow bfd_perform_relocation bfd_install_relocation The howto manager bfd_reloc_code_type bfd_reloc_type_lookup bfd_default_reloc_type_lookup bfd_get_reloc_code_name bfd_generic_relax_section bfd_generic_get_relocated_section_contents Core files bfd_core_file_failing_command bfd_core_file_failing_signal core_file_matches_executable_p Targets bfd_target bfd_set_default_target bfd_find_target bfd_target_list Architectures bfd_architecture bfd_arch_info bfd_printable_name bfd_scan_arch bfd_arch_list bfd_arch_get_compatible bfd_default_arch_struct bfd_set_arch_info bfd_default_set_arch_mach bfd_get_arch bfd_get_mach bfd_arch_bits_per_byte bfd_arch_bits_per_address bfd_default_compatible bfd_default_scan bfd_get_arch_info bfd_lookup_arch bfd_printable_arch_mach Opening and closing BFDs bfd_openr bfd_fdopenr bfd_openstreamr bfd_openw bfd_close bfd_close_all_done bfd_create bfd_alloc Internal functions bfd_write_bigendian_4byte_int bfd_put_size bfd_get_size bfd_h_put_size bfd_log2 File caching BFD_CACHE_MAX_OPEN macro bfd_last_cache bfd_cache_lookup bfd_cache_init bfd_cache_close bfd_open_file bfd_cache_lookup_worker Linker Functions Creating a linker hash table Adding symbols to the hash table Differing file formats Adding symbols from an object file Adding symbols from an archive Performing the final link Information provided by the linker Relocating the section contents Writing the symbol table bfd_link_split_section Hash Tables Creating and freeing a hash table Looking up or entering a string Traversing a hash table Deriving a new hash table type Define the derived structures Write the derived creation routine Write other derived routines BFD back ends a.out backends Relocations Internal entry points aout_size_swap_exec_header_in aout_size_swap_exec_header_out aout_size_some_aout_object_p aout_size_mkobject aout_size_machine_type aout_size_set_arch_mach aout_size_new_section_hook coff backends Porting to a new version of coff How the coff backend works File layout Bit twiddling Symbol reading Symbol writing coff_symbol_type bfd_coff_backend_data Writing relocations Reading linenumbers Reading relocations ELF backends bfd_elf_find_section Index