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2.5 Initialization

2.5.1 Initialization functions

These are the functions that handle initializing a BFD.

2.5.1.1 bfd_init

Synopsis

unsigned int bfd_init (void);

Description
This routine must be called before any other BFD function to initialize magical internal data structures. Returns a magic number, which may be used to check that the bfd library is configured as expected by users.


/* Value returned by bfd_init.  */

#define BFD_INIT_MAGIC (sizeof (struct bfd_section))