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, …

GDB finds it in your program's symbol table, in the file indicated when you started GDB (see section Choosing files), or by one of the file-management commands (see section Commands to specify …

A debugging symbol table is information included in the binary file that maps the compiled instructions to the corresponding line, function, and/or variable in the original source code.

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

Occasionally, you may need to refer to symbols that contain unusual characters, which GDB ordinarily treats as word delimiters. The most frequent case is in referring to static variables in other source …

A Debugging Symbol Table maps instructions in the compiled binary program to their corresponding variable, function, or line in the source code. This mapping could be something like:

Debugging symbols or Debug Symbol Table are necessary information of symbols present in binary executable required by gdb for debugging. Without debug symbols gdb doesn't know which address …

These commands are used to debug the GDB symbol-reading code. Only symbols with debugging data are included. If you use `maint print symbols', GDB includes all the symbols for which it has already …