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The design and implementation chapter is outdated

We have so far looked at the string table using nm. Programmatically the table can be found in the .symtab section. Each entry in this table represents a symbol and each entry has:

• shndx, a section header index (?). This should match the index of the .defmt section.
• value, this is the address of the symbol. For .defmt, this is the string index
• name, an index into some data structure full of strings. get_name returns the interned string
• the other info is not relevant