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  25 Symbolic addresses are currently only used in immediate values
  26 (see section <A HREF="suif1_100.html#SEC100">Immediate Values</A>).  A symbolic address has two parts, a symbol and an
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  28 aggregate data structure the offset may specify the number of bits from
  29 the beginning of the data structure to a particular field.  The
  30 <CODE>sym_addr</CODE> class defined in the <TT>`symaddr.h'</TT> and
  31 <TT>`symaddr.cc'</TT> files implements these symbolic addresses.
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  38 The <CODE>symbol</CODE> method returns a pointer to the symbol in a symbolic
  39 address, and the <CODE>offset</CODE> method returns the integer offset.  As
  40 with most other offsets in SUIF, the offset is in <EM>bits</EM>.  Be
  41 careful to avoid treating this as a byte or word offset.  As with
  42 immediate values, there are no methods to change the contents of a
  43 symbolic address.  Because these are small structures, it is just as
  44 easy to create new <CODE>sym_addr</CODE> objects whenever they are needed.  To
  45 print a symbolic address, use the <CODE>print</CODE> method.
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