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<h3 class="section">3.2 Linker Script Format</h3>

<p><a name="index-linker-script-format-389"></a>Linker scripts are text files.

   <p>You write a linker script as a series of commands.  Each command is
either a keyword, possibly followed by arguments, or an assignment to a
symbol.  You may separate commands using semicolons.  Whitespace is
generally ignored.

   <p>Strings such as file or format names can normally be entered directly. 
If the file name contains a character such as a comma which would
otherwise serve to separate file names, you may put the file name in
double quotes.  There is no way to use a double quote character in a
file name.

   <p>You may include comments in linker scripts just as in C, delimited by
&lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">/*</span></samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp><span class="samp">*/</span></samp>&rsquo;.  As in C, comments are syntactically equivalent
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