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Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2006 19:24:14 +0530
From: "Aditya Godbole" <aag.lists@gmail.com>
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Hi,

I was going through the machine dependant code and found that
assembler symbols are created using a script that parses symbol names
taken from an object file. Why is it done this way? Are there any
advantages of doing this?

-aditya