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Inside Macintosh: Mac OS Runtime Architectures /
Chapter 8 - PEF Structure / The Loader Section


The Loader String Table

The loader string table contains character strings that specify the names of imported and exported symbols and the names of imported libraries. Strings for imported symbols and imported libraries must be null terminated, but strings referenced by export symbol table entries (that is, strings for exported symbols) do not have this requirement. (The Code Fragment Manager uses the upper 16 bits of the hash value to determine the length of the string). None of the strings contain a Pascal-style length byte.


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11 MARCH 1997