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#ifndef _MACHO_LDSYMS_H_
#define _MACHO_LDSYMS_H_
#import <mach-o/loader.h>
/*
* This file describes the link editor defined symbols. The semantics of a
* link editor symbol is that it is defined by the link editor only if it is
* referenced and it is an error for the user to define them (see the man page
* ld(1)). The standard UNIX link editor symbols: __end, __etext and __edata
* are not not supported by the NeXT Mach-O link editor. These symbols are
* really not meaningful in a Mach-O object file and the link editor symbols
* that are supported (described here) replace them. In the case of the
* standard UNIX link editor symbols the program can use the symbol
* __mh_execute_header and walk the load commands of it's program to determine
* the ending (or beginning) of any section or segment in the program. Note
* that the compiler prepends an underbar to all external symbol names coded
* in a high level language. Thus in 'C' names are coded without an underbar
* and symbol names in the symbol table have an underbar. There are two cpp
* macros for each link editor defined name in this file. The macro with a
* leading underbar is the symbol name and the one without is the name as
* coded in 'C'.
*/
/*
* The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_EXECUTE_SYM is the address
* of the mach header in a Mach-O executable file type. It does not appear in
* any file type other than a MH_EXECUTE file type. The type of the symbol is
* absolute as the header is not part of any section.
*/
#define _MH_EXECUTE_SYM "__mh_execute_header"
#define MH_EXECUTE_SYM "_mh_execute_header"
extern const struct mach_header _mh_execute_header;
/*
* The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_BUNDLE_SYM is the address
* of the mach header in a Mach-O bundle file type. It does not appear in
* any file type other than a MH_BUNDLE file type. The type of the symbol is
* an N_SECT symbol even thought the header is not part of any section. This
* symbol is private to the code in the bundle it is a part of.
*/
#define _MH_BUNDLE_SYM "__mh_bundle_header"
#define MH_BUNDLE_SYM "_mh_bundle_header"
extern const struct mach_header _mh_bundle_header;
/*
* The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_DYLIB_SYM is the address
* of the mach header in a Mach-O dylib file type. It does not appear in
* any file type other than a MH_DYLIB file type. The type of the symbol is
* an N_SECT symbol even thought the header is not part of any section. This
* symbol is private to the code in the library it is a part of.
*/
#define _MH_DYLIB_SYM "__mh_dylib_header"
#define MH_DYLIB_SYM "_mh_dylib_header"
extern const struct mach_header _mh_dylib_header;
/*
* The value of the link editor defined symbol _MH_DYLINKER_SYM is the address
* of the mach header in a Mach-O dylinker file type. It does not appear in
* any file type other than a MH_DYLINKER file type. The type of the symbol is
* an N_SECT symbol even thought the header is not part of any section. This
* symbol is private to the code in the dynamic linker it is a part of.
*/
#define _MH_DYLINKER_SYM "__mh_dylinker_header"
#define MH_DYLINKER_SYM "_mh_dylinker_header"
extern const struct mach_header _mh_dylinker_header;
/*
* For the MH_PRELOAD file type the headers are not loaded as part of any
* segment so the link editor defines symbols defined for the beginning
* and ending of each segment and each section in each segment. The names for
* the symbols for a segment's beginning and end will have the form:
* __SEGNAME__begin and __SEGNAME__end where __SEGNAME is the name of the
* segment. The names for the symbols for a section's beginning and end will
* have the form: __SEGNAME__sectname__begin and __SEGNAME__sectname__end
* where __sectname is the name of the section and __SEGNAME is the segment it
* is in.
*
* The above symbols' types are those of the section they are referring to.
* This is true even for symbols who's values are end's of a section and
* that value is next address after that section and not really in that
* section. This results in these symbols having types referring to sections
* who's values are not in that section.
*/
#endif /* _MACHO_LDSYMS_H_ */