gcc/fortran/doc/gfc-internals/generating-the-intermediate-language-for-later-stages/accessing-declarations.rst

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   8 Accessing declarations
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  11 ``gfc_symbol``, ``gfc_charlen`` and other front-end structures
  12 contain a ``backend_decl`` variable, which contains the ``tree``
  13 used for accessing that entity in the middle-end.
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  15 Accessing declarations is usually done by functions called
  16 ``gfc_get*``.