String table

Symbol table names longer than eight characters are stored contiguously in the string table with each symbol name delimited by a null byte. The first four bytes of the string table are the size of the string table in bytes; offsets into the string table, therefore, are greater than or equal to 4. For example, given a file containing two symbols (with names longer then eight characters, long_name_1 and another_one) the string table has the format as shown in Table 7-36, ``String table'':

Table 7-36 String table

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| `l'|  `o'|  `n'|  `g' |
|    |     |     |      |
|----|-----|-----|------|
|    |     |     |      |
| `_'|  `n'|  `a'|  `m' |
|    |     |     |      |
|----|-----|-----|------|
|    |     |     |      |
| `e'|  `_'|  `l'|  `\0'|
|----|-----|-----|------|
|    |     |     |      |
| `a'|  `n'|  `o'|  `t' |
|    |     |     |      |
|----|-----|-----|------|
|    |     |     |      |
| `h'|  `e'|  `r'|  `_' |
|----|-----|-----|------|
|    |     |     |      |
| `o'|  `n'|  `e'|  `\0'|
|----|-----|-----|------|

The index of long_name_1 in the string table is 4 and the index of another_one is 16.