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Asked: 2026-05-27T06:02:36+00:00

without -g flag: (gdb) break main Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048274 with -g flag: (gdb)

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without -g flag:

(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048274

with -g flag:

(gdb) break main
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048277: file example.c, line 31.

I vaguely know -g option stores the symbol table information.

  1. What does the -g option exactly do?

  2. Is there any way I can look at this symbol table?

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    -g (for gcc) stores debugging information in the output files so that debuggers can pick it up and present more useful information during the debugging process. Exactly what gets stored can depend a great deal on the environment you’re running in.

    One way to look at what this consists of is to use objdump with the --debugging option (or its equivalent short form -g which matches gcc).

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