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+// Copyright 2021 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
+// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
+// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
+
+package base
+
+import (
+	"cmd/internal/obj"
+)
+
+var Ctxt *obj.Link
+
+// TODO(mdempsky): These should probably be obj.Link methods.
+
+// PkgLinksym returns the linker symbol for name within the given
+// package prefix. For user packages, prefix should be the package
+// path encoded with objabi.PathToPrefix.
+func PkgLinksym(prefix, name string, abi obj.ABI) *obj.LSym {
+	if name == "_" {
+		// TODO(mdempsky): Cleanup callers and Fatalf instead.
+		return linksym(prefix, "_", abi)
+	}
+	return linksym(prefix, prefix+"."+name, abi)
+}
+
+// Linkname returns the linker symbol for the given name as it might
+// appear within a //go:linkname directive.
+func Linkname(name string, abi obj.ABI) *obj.LSym {
+	return linksym("_", name, abi)
+}
+
+// linksym is an internal helper function for implementing the above
+// exported APIs.
+func linksym(pkg, name string, abi obj.ABI) *obj.LSym {
+	return Ctxt.LookupABIInit(name, abi, func(r *obj.LSym) { r.Pkg = pkg })
+}