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  18 <h3 class="section">Alternate Entry Points</h3>
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  20    <p>Some languages, like Fortran, have the ability to enter procedures at
  21 some place other than the beginning.  One can declare an alternate entry
  22 point.  The <code>N_ENTRY</code> stab is for this; however, the Sun FORTRAN
  23 compiler doesn't use it.  According to AIX documentation, only the name
  24 of a <code>C_ENTRY</code> stab is significant; the address of the alternate
  25 entry point comes from the corresponding external symbol.  A previous
  26 revision of this document said that the value of an <code>N_ENTRY</code> stab
  27 was the address of the alternate entry point, but I don't know the
  28 source for that information.
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