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<h4 class="subsection">3.5.2 HIDDEN</h4>

<p><a name="index-HIDDEN-447"></a>For ELF targeted ports, define a symbol that will be hidden and won't be
exported.  The syntax is <code>HIDDEN(</code><var>symbol</var><code> = </code><var>expression</var><code>)</code>.

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<code>HIDDEN</code>:

<pre class="smallexample">     HIDDEN(floating_point = 0);
     SECTIONS
     {
       .text :
         {
           *(.text)
           HIDDEN(_etext = .);
         }
       HIDDEN(_bdata = (. + 3) &amp; ~ 3);
       .data : { *(.data) }
     }
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   <p class="noindent">In this case none of the three symbols will be visible outside this module.

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