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								<a name="Adding-Symbols-to-the-Hash-Table"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Performing-the-Final-Link.html#Performing-the-Final-Link">Performing the Final Link</a>,
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								<h4 class="subsection">2.17.2 Adding symbols to the hash table</h4>
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								<p><a name="index-_005fbfd_005flink_005fadd_005fsymbols-in-target-vector-1371"></a><a name="index-target-vector-_0028_005fbfd_005flink_005fadd_005fsymbols_0029-1372"></a>The linker proper will call the <code>_bfd_link_add_symbols</code>
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								entry point for each object file or archive which is to be
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								line, but some may also come from the linker script).  The
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								entry point is responsible for examining the file.  For an
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								object file, BFD must add any relevant symbol information to
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								the hash table.  For an archive, BFD must determine which
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								elements of the archive should be used and adding them to the
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								<code>NAME(aout,link_add_symbols)</code>.
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								<li><a accesskey="2" href="Adding-symbols-from-an-object-file.html#Adding-symbols-from-an-object-file">Adding symbols from an object file</a>
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								<li><a accesskey="3" href="Adding-symbols-from-an-archive.html#Adding-symbols-from-an-archive">Adding symbols from an archive</a>
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