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- #ifndef _MACHO_LDSYMS_H_
- #define _MACHO_LDSYMS_H_
-
- #import <mach-o/loader.h>
-
- /*
- * This file describes the link editor defined symbols. The semantics of a
- * link editor symbol is that it is defined by the link editor only if it is
- * referenced and it is an error for the user to define them (see the man page
- * ld(1)). The standard UNIX link editor symbols: __end, __etext and __edata
- * are not not supported by the NeXT Mach-O link editor. These symbols are
- * really not meaningful in a Mach-O object file and the link editor symbols
- * that are supported (described here) replace them. In the case of the
- * standard UNIX link editor symbols the program can use the symbol
- * __mh_execute_header and walk the load commands of it's program to determine
- * the ending (or beginning) of any section or segment in the program. Note
- * that the compiler prepends an underbar to all external symbol names coded
- * in a high level language. Thus in 'C' names are coded without an underbar
- * and symbol names in the symbol table have an underbar. There are two cpp
- * macros for each link editor defined name in this file. The macro with a
- * leading underbar is the symbol name and the one without is the name as
- * coded in 'C'.
- */
-
- /*
- * The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_EXECUTE_SYM is the address
- * of the mach header in a Mach-O executable file type. It does not appear in
- * any file type other than a MH_EXECUTE file type. The type of the symbol is
- * absolute as the header is not part of any section.
- */
- #define _MH_EXECUTE_SYM "__mh_execute_header"
- #define MH_EXECUTE_SYM "_mh_execute_header"
- extern const struct mach_header _mh_execute_header;
-
- /*
- * The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_BUNDLE_SYM is the address
- * of the mach header in a Mach-O bundle file type. It does not appear in
- * any file type other than a MH_BUNDLE file type. The type of the symbol is
- * an N_SECT symbol even thought the header is not part of any section. This
- * symbol is private to the code in the bundle it is a part of.
- */
- #define _MH_BUNDLE_SYM "__mh_bundle_header"
- #define MH_BUNDLE_SYM "_mh_bundle_header"
- extern const struct mach_header _mh_bundle_header;
-
- /*
- * The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_DYLIB_SYM is the address
- * of the mach header in a Mach-O dylib file type. It does not appear in
- * any file type other than a MH_DYLIB file type. The type of the symbol is
- * an N_SECT symbol even thought the header is not part of any section. This
- * symbol is private to the code in the library it is a part of.
- */
- #define _MH_DYLIB_SYM "__mh_dylib_header"
- #define MH_DYLIB_SYM "_mh_dylib_header"
- extern const struct mach_header _mh_dylib_header;
-
- /*
- * The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_DYLINKER_SYM is the address
- * of the mach header in a Mach-O dylinker file type. It does not appear in
- * any file type other than a MH_DYLINKER file type. The type of the symbol is
- * an N_SECT symbol even thought the header is not part of any section. This
- * symbol is private to the code in the dynamic linker it is a part of.
- */
- #define _MH_DYLINKER_SYM "__mh_dylinker_header"
- #define MH_DYLINKER_SYM "_mh_dylinker_header"
- extern const struct mach_header _mh_dylinker_header;
-
- /*
- * For the MH_PRELOAD file type the headers are not loaded as part of any
- * segment so the link editor defines symbols defined for the beginning
- * and ending of each segment and each section in each segment. The names for
- * the symbols for a segment's beginning and end will have the form:
- * __SEGNAME__begin and __SEGNAME__end where __SEGNAME is the name of the
- * segment. The names for the symbols for a section's beginning and end will
- * have the form: __SEGNAME__sectname__begin and __SEGNAME__sectname__end
- * where __sectname is the name of the section and __SEGNAME is the segment it
- * is in.
- *
- * The above symbols' types are those of the section they are referring to.
- * This is true even for symbols who's values are end's of a section and
- * that value is next address after that section and not really in that
- * section. This results in these symbols having types referring to sections
- * who's values are not in that section.
- */
-
- #endif /* _MACHO_LDSYMS_H_ */
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