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<a name="Symbol-Value"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Symbol-Type.html#Symbol-Type">Symbol Type</a>,
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Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="Symbol-Attributes.html#Symbol-Attributes">Symbol Attributes</a>
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<h4 class="subsection">5.5.1 Value</h4>
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<p><a name="index-value-of-a-symbol-227"></a><a name="index-symbol-value-228"></a>The value of a symbol is (usually) 32 bits. For a symbol which labels a
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location in the text, data, bss or absolute sections the value is the
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number of addresses from the start of that section to the label.
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Naturally for text, data and bss sections the value of a symbol changes
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as <code>ld</code> changes section base addresses during linking. Absolute
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symbols' values do not change during linking: that is why they are
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called absolute.
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<p>The value of an undefined symbol is treated in a special way. If it is
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0 then the symbol is not defined in this assembler source file, and
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<code>ld</code> tries to determine its value from other files linked into the
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same program. You make this kind of symbol simply by mentioning a symbol
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name without defining it. A non-zero value represents a <code>.comm</code>
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common declaration. The value is how much common storage to reserve, in
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bytes (addresses). The symbol refers to the first address of the
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allocated storage.
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