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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 ``String table'':
String table
| `l' | `o' | `n' | `g' |
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| `_' | `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.