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global symbol

A name other object files may refer to; a local symbol, by contrast, is visible only inside its own file.

A symbol's binding is global when the linker may resolve references from other object files to it (.globl in GNU as, PUBLIC in MASM, external linkage in C++) and local when it is private to its object file (static or an anonymous namespace).

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shared library object file
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