+/* Mark the CHILD BFD as being a member of PARENT. Also, increment
+ the reference count of CHILD. Calling this function ensures that
+ as along as CHILD remains alive, PARENT will as well. Both CHILD
+ and PARENT must be non-NULL. This can be called more than once
+ with the same arguments; but it is not allowed to call it for a
+ single CHILD with different values for PARENT. */
+
+void gdb_bfd_mark_parent (bfd *child, bfd *parent);
+
+/* Mark INCLUDEE as being included by INCLUDER.
+ This is used to associate the life time of INCLUDEE with INCLUDER.
+ For example, with Fission, one file can refer to debug info in another
+ file, and internal tables we build for the main file (INCLUDER) may refer
+ to data contained in INCLUDEE. Therefore we want to keep INCLUDEE around
+ at least as long as INCLUDER exists.
+
+ Note that this is different than gdb_bfd_mark_parent because in our case
+ lifetime tracking is based on the "parent" whereas in gdb_bfd_mark_parent
+ lifetime tracking is based on the "child". Plus in our case INCLUDEE could
+ have multiple different "parents". */
+
+void gdb_bfd_record_inclusion (bfd *includer, bfd *includee);
+
+/* Try to read or map the contents of the section SECT. If
+ successful, the section data is returned and *SIZE is set to the
+ size of the section data; this may not be the same as the size
+ according to bfd_get_section_size if the section was compressed.
+ The returned section data is associated with the BFD and will be
+ destroyed when the BFD is destroyed. There is no other way to free
+ it; for temporary uses of section data, see
+ bfd_malloc_and_get_section. SECT may not have relocations. This
+ function will throw on error. */
+
+const gdb_byte *gdb_bfd_map_section (asection *section, bfd_size_type *size);
+
+/* Compute the CRC for ABFD. The CRC is used to find and verify
+ separate debug files. When successful, this fills in *CRC_OUT and
+ returns 1. Otherwise, this issues a warning and returns 0. */
+
+int gdb_bfd_crc (struct bfd *abfd, unsigned long *crc_out);
+
+\f
+
+/* A wrapper for bfd_fopen that initializes the gdb-specific reference
+ count. */
+
+bfd *gdb_bfd_fopen (const char *, const char *, const char *, int);
+
+/* A wrapper for bfd_openr that initializes the gdb-specific reference
+ count. */
+
+bfd *gdb_bfd_openr (const char *, const char *);
+
+/* A wrapper for bfd_openw that initializes the gdb-specific reference
+ count. */
+
+bfd *gdb_bfd_openw (const char *, const char *);
+
+/* A wrapper for bfd_openr_iovec that initializes the gdb-specific
+ reference count. */
+
+bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_iovec (const char *filename, const char *target,
+ void *(*open_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
+ void *open_closure),
+ void *open_closure,
+ file_ptr (*pread_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
+ void *stream,
+ void *buf,
+ file_ptr nbytes,
+ file_ptr offset),
+ int (*close_func) (struct bfd *nbfd,
+ void *stream),
+ int (*stat_func) (struct bfd *abfd,
+ void *stream,
+ struct stat *sb));
+
+/* A wrapper for bfd_openr_next_archived_file that initializes the
+ gdb-specific reference count. */
+
+bfd *gdb_bfd_openr_next_archived_file (bfd *archive, bfd *previous);
+
+/* A wrapper for bfd_fdopenr that initializes the gdb-specific
+ reference count. */
+
+bfd *gdb_bfd_fdopenr (const char *filename, const char *target, int fd);
+
+\f
+
+/* Return the index of the BFD section SECTION. Ordinarily this is
+ just the section's index, but for some special sections, like
+ bfd_com_section_ptr, it will be a synthesized value. */
+
+int gdb_bfd_section_index (bfd *abfd, asection *section);
+
+
+/* Like bfd_count_sections, but include any possible global sections,
+ like bfd_com_section_ptr. */
+
+int gdb_bfd_count_sections (bfd *abfd);
+
+/* Return true if any section requires relocations, false
+ otherwise. */
+
+int gdb_bfd_requires_relocations (bfd *abfd);
+