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diff --git a/gas/doc/internals.texi b/gas/doc/internals.texi index f58ae8b..76ed7b4 100644 --- a/gas/doc/internals.texi +++ b/gas/doc/internals.texi @@ -41,11 +41,10 @@ This section describes some fundamental GAS data types. @cindex symbolS structure The definition for the symbol structure, @code{symbolS}, is located in -@file{struc-symbol.h}. +@file{symbols.c}. -In general, the fields of this structure may not be referred to directly. +The fields of this structure may not be referred to directly. Instead, you must use one of the accessor functions defined in @file{symbol.h}. -These accessor functions should work for any GAS version. Symbol structures contain the following fields: @@ -398,12 +397,6 @@ deal with local symbols. @code{struct local_symbol} is much smaller than @code{symbolS} (which also automatically creates a bfd @code{asymbol} structure), so this saves space when assembling large files. -The first field of @code{symbolS} is @code{bsym}, the pointer to the BFD -symbol. The first field of @code{struct local_symbol} is a pointer which is -always set to NULL. This is how the symbol accessor functions can distinguish -local symbols from ordinary symbols. The symbol accessor functions -automatically convert a local symbol into an ordinary symbol when necessary. - @node Expressions @subsection Expressions @cindex internals, expressions |