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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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