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In order to reduce the size of distributed binaries, symbolic debug data may be separated from the binary and placed in another file. This can be accessed from a local file, or a ''symbol server'' set up for this purpose.
== Reserved Names ==
Many tools (such as [[Assembler|assemblers]]) have ''reserved names'' -- names which cannot be used for user-defined symbols because they conflict with pre-defined or internal symbols or create ambiguity in the source code. For example, in aarch64 gas assembly syntax, you cannot use x0 as a constant name, because it conflicts with the register name.