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Re: Where's bfd.h

From: Ian Lance Taylor <iant at google dot com>
To: "Bill Cunningham" <billcun at suddenlink dot net>
Cc: <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2011 17:02:21 -0700
Subject: Re: Where's bfd.h
References: <000301cc40e7$914a4b10$a7d8daad@YOUR1F7593437D> <mcry603jc1z.fsf@coign.corp.google.com> <000a01cc40ef$0feacfb0$a7d8daad@YOUR1F7593437D>

"Bill Cunningham" <billcun@suddenlink.net> writes:

> In the compiled compiled binutils-2.21 I get syscat.h ansidecl.h and
> bfd.h and the libbfd.a static library in the /lib directory. ELF's
> section struct has a referrence to SH_INFO. This is I believe where a
> vendor puts information about his ELF file. COFF maybe different.

The sh_info field of an ELF section header has a different meaning for
different section types (sh_type field).  It does not have a
vendor-specific meaning, except, of course, when using a vendor-specific
section type.

Vendor specific information is normally put in a vendor specific note
section (type SHT_NOTE).

Ian

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