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 - <h4 class="subsection">2.17.2 Adding symbols to the hash table</h4>
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 - <p>The linker proper will call the <code>_bfd_link_add_symbols</code>
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 - linked (typically these are the files named on the command
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 - entry point is responsible for examining the file.  For an
 - object file, BFD must add any relevant symbol information to
 - the hash table.  For an archive, BFD must determine which
 - elements of the archive should be used and adding them to the
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