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 - <h4 class="subsection">2.18.1 Creating and freeing a hash table</h4>
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 - <p>To create a hash table, create an instance of a <code>struct
 - bfd_hash_table</code> (defined in <code>bfd.h</code>) and call
 - <code>bfd_hash_table_init</code> (if you know approximately how many
 - entries you will need, the function <code>bfd_hash_table_init_n</code>,
 - which takes a <var>size</var> argument, may be used).
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 - <p>The function <code>bfd_hash_table_init</code> take as an argument a
 - function to use to create new entries.  For a basic hash
 - table, use the function <code>bfd_hash_newfunc</code>.  See <a href="Deriving-a-New-Hash-Table-Type.html#Deriving-a-New-Hash-Table-Type">Deriving a New Hash Table Type</a>, for why you would want to use a
 - different value for this argument.
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 - used to allocate new entries.  You may allocate memory on this
 - objalloc using <code>bfd_hash_allocate</code>.
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 - <code>struct bfd_hash_table</code> itself, which you must provide.
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