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<h3 class="section">3.5 Assigning Values to Symbols</h3>
<p><a name="index-assignment-in-scripts-356"></a><a name="index-symbol-definition_002c-scripts-357"></a><a name="index-variables_002c-defining-358"></a>You may assign a value to a symbol in a linker script. This will define
the symbol and place it into the symbol table with a global scope.
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