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[PATCH 5/5] fix up docs
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Binutils Development <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 08:56:06 -0600
- Subject: [PATCH 5/5] fix up docs
This patch fixes up the BFD archive docs to describe memory management
for archive member BFDs.
* archive.c: Update archive documentation.
---
bfd/archive.c | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/bfd/archive.c b/bfd/archive.c
index 8407745..d5133d0 100644
--- a/bfd/archive.c
+++ b/bfd/archive.c
@@ -42,11 +42,22 @@ DESCRIPTION
have to read the entire archive if you don't want
to! Read it until you find what you want.
+ A BFD returned by <<bfd_openr_next_archived_file>> will not
+ automatically be closed. If you want to close it, you must
+ call <<bfd_close>>. If you do not close it, then a second
+ iteration through the members of an archive may return the
+ same BFD.
+
+ A member BFD is not fully independent of its containing
+ archive BFD. So, if you close the archive BFD, you must
+ ensure that either the member BFDs have been closed first, or
+ that they are never referred to (and thus effectively leaked).
+
Archive contents of output BFDs are chained through the
- <<next>> pointer in a BFD. The first one is findable through
- the <<archive_head>> slot of the archive. Set it with
- <<bfd_set_archive_head>> (q.v.). A given BFD may be in only one
- open output archive at a time.
+ <<archive_next>> pointer in a BFD. The first one is findable
+ through the <<archive_head>> slot of the archive. Set it with
+ <<bfd_set_archive_head>> (q.v.). A given BFD may be in only
+ one open output archive at a time.
As expected, the BFD archive code is more general than the
archive code of any given environment. BFD archives may
--
1.7.7.6