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@section ELF backends

BFD support for ELF formats is being worked on.

Currently, the best supported back ends are for sparc and i386

(running svr4 or Solaris 2).

Documentation of the internals of the support code still needs

to be written.  The code is changing quickly enough that we

haven't bothered yet.

@findex bfd_elf_find_section

@subsubsection @code{bfd_elf_find_section}

@strong{Synopsis}

@example

struct elf_internal_shdr *bfd_elf_find_section (bfd *abfd, char *name);

@end example

@strong{Description}@*

Helper functions for GDB to locate the string tables.

Since BFD hides string tables from callers, GDB needs to use an

internal hook to find them.  Sun's .stabstr, in particular,

isn't even pointed to by the .stab section, so ordinary

mechanisms wouldn't work to find it, even if we had some.