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<h4 class="subsection">2.7.1 Reading symbols</h4>
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<p>There are two stages to reading a symbol table from a BFD:
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allocating storage, and the actual reading process. This is an
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excerpt from an application which reads the symbol table:
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<pre class="example"> long storage_needed;
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asymbol **symbol_table;
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long number_of_symbols;
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long i;
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storage_needed = bfd_get_symtab_upper_bound (abfd);
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if (storage_needed < 0)
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FAIL
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if (storage_needed == 0)
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return;
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symbol_table = xmalloc (storage_needed);
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number_of_symbols =
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bfd_canonicalize_symtab (abfd, symbol_table);
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if (number_of_symbols < 0)
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FAIL
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for (i = 0; i < number_of_symbols; i++)
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process_symbol (symbol_table[i]);
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<p>All storage for the symbols themselves is in an objalloc
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connected to the BFD; it is freed when the BFD is closed.
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