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

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