From:	"Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 2000 23:20:58 -0400
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Subject:	Re: (fwd) startup-code
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> I got the idea to check what Linux does. And guess what? The magic
> word is "PROVIDE" and everybody will be happy! Read more about it in
> ld's info pages.

I haven't payed much attention to this issue; however, I think you're on to 
something. A quick grep of the linker scripts in the Binutils CVS repo 
(src/ld/scripttempl) shows PROVIDE is used with symbols like end, etext, etc.

Mark

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