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	doc: Add a description for a useful case of mangling symbols
Signed-off-by: Chang S. Bae <changseok.bae@gmail.com>
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			| @@ -4707,6 +4707,18 @@ This is a macro implemented as a \c{%pragma}: | ||||
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| Commandline option is also possible. See also \k{opt-pfix}. | ||||
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| Some tool chain is aware of a particular prefix for its own optimization | ||||
| options, such as code elimination. For instance, Mach-O backend has a | ||||
| linker that uses a simplistic naming scheme to chunk up sections into a | ||||
| meta section. When the \c{subsections_via_symbols} directive | ||||
| (\k{macho-ssvs}) is declared, each symbol is the start of a | ||||
| separate block. The meta section is, then, defined to include sections | ||||
| before the one that starts with a 'L'. \c{LPREFIX} is useful here to mark | ||||
| all local symbols with the 'L' prefix to be excluded to the meta section. | ||||
| It converts local symbols compatible with the particular tool chain. | ||||
| Note that local symbols declared with \c{STATIC} (\k{static}) | ||||
| are excluded from the symbol mangling and also not marked as global. | ||||
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| \H{gen-namespace} \i\c{OUTPUT}, \i\c{DEBUG}: Generic Namespaces | ||||
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| @@ -5823,9 +5835,9 @@ right-hand side of the \c{WRT} operator: | ||||
| \S{macho-ssvs} \c{macho} specfic directive \i\c{subsections_via_symbols} | ||||
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| The directive \c{subsections_via_symbols} sets the | ||||
| \c{MH_SUBSECTIONS_VIA_SYMBOLS} flag in the Mach-O header, which tells | ||||
| the linker that the symbols in the file matches the conventions | ||||
| required to allow for link-time dead code elimination. | ||||
| \c{MH_SUBSECTIONS_VIA_SYMBOLS} flag in the Mach-O header, that effectively | ||||
| separates a block (or a subsection) based on a symbol. It is often used | ||||
| for eliminating dead codes by a linker. | ||||
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| This directive takes no arguments. | ||||
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