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<h3 class="section">2.8 Alternate Entry Points</h3>

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<p>Some languages, like Fortran, have the ability to enter procedures at
some place other than the beginning.  One can declare an alternate entry
point.  The <code>N_ENTRY</code> stab is for this; however, the Sun FORTRAN
compiler doesn&rsquo;t use it.  According to AIX documentation, only the name
of a <code>C_ENTRY</code> stab is significant; the address of the alternate
entry point comes from the corresponding external symbol.  A previous
revision of this document said that the value of an <code>N_ENTRY</code> stab
was the address of the alternate entry point, but I don&rsquo;t know the
source for that information.
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