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Is there complete documentation to the bfd library? I only found bfd.texinfo in
bfd/doc and it isn't complete. I have been trying to follow the code that
recognizes a loadfile but I don't have any luck.

For example in bfd/format.c the function bfd_check_format I assume must access
the loadfile and determine what format it is.
Thus with the ABinaryFileDescriptor defaulted to say a.out-sunos-big
(abfd->defaulted = True), from bfd.h the #define BFD_SEND_FMT(bfd,message,arglist) (((bfd)->xvec->message[(int)((bfd)->format)]) arglist) and finally the
call in bfd/format.c of temp - BFD_SEND_FMT (abfd, _bfd_check_format, (abfd)),
This should do a call to the specific format check routine for whatever target
abfd->xvec points to. What I can't figure out is how this is determined and
what the macro expands to.

My best guess is that the bfd abfd's field xvec is a pointer to a bfd target.
Thus the BFD_SENT_FMT must expand to a call to that specific targets
_bfd_check_format but I can't figure out exactly how this is done.

I am interested in creating a new bfd but would like to be able to follow the
code that examines the files structure first.


Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ray. 	s442013@nexus.yorku.ca