I am doing some work with gdb and have found references in the documentation to “symbols”. Is this another word for externally (exported) visible variables ?
Thanks,
Scott
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I am doing some work with gdb and have found references in the documentation to “symbols”. Is this another word for externally (exported) visible variables ?
Thanks,
Scott
A ‘symbol’ is a symbolic identifier including function and variable names.
The compiler/linker create a symbol table during the build and this is used by the debugger to provide source-level symbolic names to these entities, as opposed to plain addresses (hence the name “symbolic debugger” which you may come across).