That means the same symbol can be use to represent many different things.

意味着同样的符号能够被用来代表很多不同的事物。

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With dynamic linking, it's not a problem to have multiple libraries that define the same symbol.

对于动态链接，多个库定义相同的符号没有问题。

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Usually no distinction in notation is made, and both would be represented by the same symbol.

通常标记上不加区别，两者都用相同的符号表示。

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It may mean something different and this is sort of just stupid re-use of syntax although frankly it wouldn't really be much fun to have yet a symbol so they went with the same symbol which is pretty reasonable in the context *a of a function prototype this just means *a expect A to be the address of an int and expect B to be the address of an int.

这里的意思有点不同,这是为了重使用的目的,虽然这个符号没有什么意义,所以在函数原型中，他们就使用了相同的符号,这只是表示，期望,是一个int型的地址,期望b是一个int型的地址。

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In this question, the relationship is simply that the symbols have nothing in common except that they are the same kind of symbol.

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