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| <h4 class="subsection">2.7.3 Mini Symbols</h4> |
| <p>Mini symbols provide read-only access to the symbol table. |
| They use less memory space, but require more time to access. |
| They can be useful for tools like nm or objdump, which may |
| have to handle symbol tables of extremely large executables. |
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| <p>The <code>bfd_read_minisymbols</code> function will read the symbols |
| into memory in an internal form. It will return a <code>void *</code> |
| pointer to a block of memory, a symbol count, and the size of |
| each symbol. The pointer is allocated using <code>malloc</code>, and |
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| <p>The function <code>bfd_minisymbol_to_symbol</code> will take a pointer |
| to a minisymbol, and a pointer to a structure returned by |
| <code>bfd_make_empty_symbol</code>, and return a <code>asymbol</code> structure. |
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