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Some languages, like Fortran, have the ability to enter procedures at
some place other than the beginning. One can declare an alternate entry
point. The N_ENTRY stab is for this; however, the Sun FORTRAN compiler
doesn't use it. According to AIX documentation, only the name of a
C_ENTRY stab is significant; the address of the alternate entry
point comes from the corresponding external symbol. A previous revision
of this document said that the value of an N_ENTRY stab was the
address of the alternate entry point, but I don't know the source for
that information.
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