1@section 
2ELF backends
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4BFD support for ELF formats is being worked on.
5Currently, the best supported back ends are for sparc and i386
6(running svr4 or Solaris 2).
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8Documentation of the internals of the support code still needs
9to be written.  The code is changing quickly enough that we
10haven't bothered yet.
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12@findex bfd_elf_find_section
13@subsubsection @code{bfd_elf_find_section}
14@strong{Synopsis}
15@example
16struct elf_internal_shdr *bfd_elf_find_section (bfd *abfd, char *name);
17@end example
18@strong{Description}@*
19Helper functions for GDB to locate the string tables.
20Since BFD hides string tables from callers, GDB needs to use an
21internal hook to find them.  Sun's .stabstr, in particular,
22isn't even pointed to by the .stab section, so ordinary
23mechanisms wouldn't work to find it, even if we had some.
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