GDB finds it in your program’s symbol table, in the file indicated when you started GDB (see Choosing Files), or by one of the file-management commands (see Commands to Specify Files). Occasionally, …

Only symbols with debugging data are included. If you use `maint print symbols', GDB includes all the symbols for which it has already collected full details: that is, filename reflects symbols for only those …

Examining the Symbol Table The commands described in this section allow you to inquire about the symbols (names of variables, functions and types) defined in your program. This information is …

15 okt. 2013 · The symbol table contains debugging information that tells a debugger what memory locations correspond to which symbols (like function names and variable names) in the original …

Finally, `maint print msymbols' dumps just the minimal symbol information required for each object file from which GDB has read some symbols. See section Commands to specify files, for a discussion of …

5 GDB 5.1 Add Symbols 5.2 Add Symbols to mmap Regions 6 References 1 Symbol Table A symbol represents a function, a global variable, and other named entity. The symbol table is a section that …

GDB finds it in your program’s symbol table, in the file indicated when you started GDB (see Choosing Files), or by one of the file-management commands (see Commands to Specify Files). Occasionally, …

To let GDB be able to read all that information line by line from the symbol table, we need to compile it a bit differently. Normally we compile our programs as: gcc hello.cc -o hello Instead of doing this, we …