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1.1     ! root        1: These files are some GNU utilities for operating on binary files.
        !             2: Note that GNU make, which used to be included here, is now distributed
        !             3: in a separate tar file.
        !             4: 
        !             5: The GNU version of ld has some interesting features you will notice:
        !             6: 
        !             7: 1. Undefined and multiply-defined global symbol errors
        !             8: are now associated with specific source files and line numbers,
        !             9: and printed in a format M-x next-error can parse.
        !            10: 
        !            11: 2. Normally no output is written if there are serious errors.
        !            12: Use the option `-noinhibit-exec' if you want an output file anyway.
        !            13: 
        !            14: 3. Global symbols can be defined by indirection to other symbols.
        !            15: See comments at definition of N_INDR in ld.c
        !            16: 
        !            17: 4. LD can accumulate sets of related values from all the object files
        !            18: that are being linked together, and put them into a vector that can
        !            19: be accessed at run time.  Thus, you can arrange for each file to have
        !            20: initializations to be run when your `main' function sees fit, without
        !            21: having to know the names of all the files that are linked together.
        !            22: See comments at definition of N_SETA, etc., in ld.c.

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