Symbols

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Symbols

Symbols are a central concept: the programmer uses symbols to name things, the linker uses symbols to link, and the debugger uses symbols to debug. For more documentation, see Symbols in as.

See the following documentation for more discussion.

Labels
Giving Symbols Other Values
Symbol Names
The Special Dot Symbol
Symbol Attributes

Value
Type
Symbol Attributes: a.out
Symbol Attributes for COFF
Symbol Attributes for SOM

Warning:

does not place symbols in the object file in the same order they were declared. This may break some debuggers.

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