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<h3 class="section">3.2 Linker Script Format</h3>
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<p>Linker scripts are text files.
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<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.
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<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.
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<p>You may include comments in linker scripts just as in C, delimited by
&lsquo;<samp>/*</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>*/</samp>&rsquo;.  As in C, comments are syntactically equivalent
to whitespace.
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