1@section Initialization 2 3 4@subsection Initialization functions 5These are the functions that handle initializing a BFD. 6 7@findex bfd_init 8@subsubsection @code{bfd_init} 9@strong{Synopsis} 10@example 11unsigned int bfd_init (void); 12@end example 13@strong{Description}@* 14This routine must be called before any other BFD function to 15initialize magical internal data structures. 16Returns a magic number, which may be used to check 17that the bfd library is configured as expected by users. 18@example 19 20/* Value returned by bfd_init. */ 21 22#define BFD_INIT_MAGIC (sizeof (struct bfd_section)) 23@end example 24 25