1@section ELF backends
2BFD support for ELF formats is being worked on.
3Currently, the best supported back ends are for sparc and i386
4(running svr4 or Solaris 2).
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6Documentation of the internals of the support code still needs
7to be written.  The code is changing quickly enough that we
8haven't bothered yet.
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10@findex bfd_elf_find_section
11@subsubsection @code{bfd_elf_find_section}
12@strong{Synopsis}
13@example
14struct elf_internal_shdr *bfd_elf_find_section (bfd *abfd, char *name);
15@end example
16@strong{Description}@*
17Helper functions for GDB to locate the string tables.
18Since BFD hides string tables from callers, GDB needs to use an
19internal hook to find them.  Sun's .stabstr, in particular,
20isn't even pointed to by the .stab section, so ordinary
21mechanisms wouldn't work to find it, even if we had some.
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