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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&rsquo;s requests through a pointer into
 calls to the back end routines.
 </p>
 <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:
 </p>
 <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.

 </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.

 </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.
 See <a href="bfd_005ftarget.html#bfd_005ftarget">bfd_target</a>.  See <a href="Formats.html#Formats">Formats</a>.

 </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.

 </li><li> Otherwise return the error <code>bfd_error_invalid_target</code> to
 <code>bfd_openr</code>.

 </li><li> <code>bfd_openr</code> attempts to open the file using
 <code>bfd_open_file</code>, and returns the BFD.
 </li></ul>
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 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.
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	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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	target are unknown. BFD uses various mechanisms to determine
	how to interpret the file. The operations performed are:
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	<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.

	</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.

	</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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	<code>bfd_open_file</code>, and returns the BFD.
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