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| <h3 class="section">2.12 Targets</h3> |
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| <p><strong>Description</strong><br> |
| Each port of BFD to a different machine requires the creation |
| of a target back end. All the back end provides to the root |
| part of BFD is a structure containing pointers to functions |
| which perform certain low level operations on files. BFD |
| translates the applications’s requests through a pointer into |
| calls to the back end routines. |
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| <p>When a file is opened with <code>bfd_openr</code>, its format and |
| target are unknown. BFD uses various mechanisms to determine |
| how to interpret the file. The operations performed are: |
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| <ul> |
| <li> Create a BFD by calling the internal routine |
| <code>_bfd_new_bfd</code>, then call <code>bfd_find_target</code> with the |
| target string supplied to <code>bfd_openr</code> and the new BFD pointer. |
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| </li><li> If a null target string was provided to <code>bfd_find_target</code>, |
| look up the environment variable <code>GNUTARGET</code> and use |
| that as the target string. |
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| </li><li> If the target string is still <code>NULL</code>, or the target string is |
| <code>default</code>, then use the first item in the target vector |
| as the target type, and set <code>target_defaulted</code> in the BFD to |
| cause <code>bfd_check_format</code> to loop through all the targets. |
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| </li><li> Otherwise, inspect the elements in the target vector |
| one by one, until a match on target name is found. When found, |
| use it. |
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| </li><li> Otherwise return the error <code>bfd_error_invalid_target</code> to |
| <code>bfd_openr</code>. |
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| </li><li> <code>bfd_openr</code> attempts to open the file using |
| <code>bfd_open_file</code>, and returns the BFD. |
| </li></ul> |
| <p>Once the BFD has been opened and the target selected, the file |
| format may be determined. This is done by calling |
| <code>bfd_check_format</code> on the BFD with a suggested format. |
| If <code>target_defaulted</code> has been set, each possible target |
| type is tried to see if it recognizes the specified format. |
| <code>bfd_check_format</code> returns <code>TRUE</code> when the caller guesses right. |
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