Symbol Aliasing

[Erik Christiansen]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 07:27:32PM +0530, Raghunath L- CTD, Chennai. wrote:
>   Symbol1:
>         .long 4     ;Creates a symbol
> 
>   I want to create an alias 'Symbol2' for the original symbol 'Symbol1' .
> With this I want to refer the memory location '0x4' 
>   either with the name 'Symbol1' or with the name 'Symbol2'.

For the restricted case of aliasing a code or data address, you can use:

Symbol2:
Symbol1:
   .long 4

Both symbols can be used, and both appear in the map file (if declared
global), but only the first appears in an objdump of the elf file. (So
don't be alarmed by this.)

Erik