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Internal functions

Description
These routines are used within BFD. They are not intended for export, but are documented here for completeness.

bfd_write_bigendian_4byte_int

Synopsis

void bfd_write_bigendian_4byte_int(bfd *abfd,  int i);

Description
Write a 4 byte integer i to the output BFD abfd, in big endian order regardless of what else is going on. This is useful in archives.

bfd_put_size

bfd_get_size

Description
These macros as used for reading and writing raw data in sections; each access (except for bytes) is vectored through the target format of the BFD and mangled accordingly. The mangling performs any necessary endian translations and removes alignment restrictions. Note that types accepted and returned by these macros are identical so they can be swapped around in macros--for example, `libaout.h' defines GET_WORD to either bfd_get_32 or bfd_get_64.

In the put routines, val must be a bfd_vma. If we are on a system without prototypes, the caller is responsible for making sure that is true, with a cast if necessary. We don't cast them in the macro definitions because that would prevent lint or gcc -Wall from detecting sins such as passing a pointer. To detect calling these with less than a bfd_vma, use gcc -Wconversion on a host with 64 bit bfd_vma's.


 /* Byte swapping macros for user section data.  */

#define bfd_put_8(abfd, val, ptr) \
                (*((unsigned char *)(ptr)) = (unsigned char)(val))
#define bfd_put_signed_8 \
               bfd_put_8
#define bfd_get_8(abfd, ptr) \
                (*(unsigned char *)(ptr))
#define bfd_get_signed_8(abfd, ptr) \
               ((*(unsigned char *)(ptr) ^ 0x80) - 0x80)

#define bfd_put_16(abfd, val, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_putx16, ((val),(ptr)))
#define bfd_put_signed_16 \
                bfd_put_16
#define bfd_get_16(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_getx16, (ptr))
#define bfd_get_signed_16(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND (abfd, bfd_getx_signed_16, (ptr))

#define bfd_put_32(abfd, val, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_putx32, ((val),(ptr)))
#define bfd_put_signed_32 \
                bfd_put_32
#define bfd_get_32(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_getx32, (ptr))
#define bfd_get_signed_32(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_getx_signed_32, (ptr))

#define bfd_put_64(abfd, val, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_putx64, ((val), (ptr)))
#define bfd_put_signed_64 \
                bfd_put_64
#define bfd_get_64(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_getx64, (ptr))
#define bfd_get_signed_64(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_getx_signed_64, (ptr))

bfd_h_put_size

Description
These macros have the same function as their bfd_get_x bretheren, except that they are used for removing information for the header records of object files. Believe it or not, some object files keep their header records in big endian order and their data in little endian order.


 /* Byte swapping macros for file header data.  */

#define bfd_h_put_8(abfd, val, ptr) \
               bfd_put_8 (abfd, val, ptr)
#define bfd_h_put_signed_8(abfd, val, ptr) \
               bfd_put_8 (abfd, val, ptr)
#define bfd_h_get_8(abfd, ptr) \
               bfd_get_8 (abfd, ptr)
#define bfd_h_get_signed_8(abfd, ptr) \
               bfd_get_signed_8 (abfd, ptr)

#define bfd_h_put_16(abfd, val, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_putx16,(val,ptr))
#define bfd_h_put_signed_16 \
                bfd_h_put_16
#define bfd_h_get_16(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_getx16,(ptr))
#define bfd_h_get_signed_16(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_getx_signed_16, (ptr))

#define bfd_h_put_32(abfd, val, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_putx32,(val,ptr))
#define bfd_h_put_signed_32 \
                bfd_h_put_32
#define bfd_h_get_32(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_getx32,(ptr))
#define bfd_h_get_signed_32(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_getx_signed_32, (ptr))

#define bfd_h_put_64(abfd, val, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_putx64,(val, ptr))
#define bfd_h_put_signed_64 \
                bfd_h_put_64
#define bfd_h_get_64(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_getx64,(ptr))
#define bfd_h_get_signed_64(abfd, ptr) \
                BFD_SEND(abfd, bfd_h_getx_signed_64, (ptr))

bfd_log2

Synopsis

unsigned int bfd_log2(bfd_vma x);

Description
Return the log base 2 of the value supplied, rounded up. E.g., an x of 1025 returns 11.


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