• A debug symbol is a special kind of symbol that attaches additional information to the symbol table of an object file, such as a shared library or an...
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  • The .debug_info section of an ELF contains information generated by compilers to describe the source code while debugging by keeping symbols and its type...
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  • be provided for use in debugging. In many cases, the symbol's cross-reference information is stored with or linked to the symbol table. Most compilers...
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    A debugger or debugging tool is a computer program used to test and debug other programs (the "target" program). The main use of a debugger is to run...
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    The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a portable debugger that runs on many Unix-like systems and works for many programming languages, including Ada, Assembly, C...
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    virtualization software Debug symbol Foreign function interface Language binding Native (computing) Opaque pointer PowerOpen Environment Symbol table SWIG Visual...
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  • PostScript fonts Debug symbol, debugging information used to troubleshoot computer programs, analyze memory dumps Unicode character, symbols which can be...
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  • of representing line numbers or debugging symbols for included source as with header files rendering the COFF debugging information virtually useless without...
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    line-oriented debugger DEBUG.EXE is an external command in operating systems such as DOS, OS/2 and Windows (only in 16-bit/32-bit versions). DEBUG can act as...
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  • Module Format (OMF) IEEE-695 DWARF Debug symbol Eager, Michael J. (April 2012) [2006]. "Introduction to the DWARF Debugging Format" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from...
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    File Format (COFF). The vmlinux file might be required for kernel debugging, symbol table generation or other operations, but must be made bootable before...
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  • elimination Executable compression List of Unix commands Strings (Unix) Debug symbol Symbol table "strip", The Single UNIX Specification, Version 2, The Open...
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  • WinDbg (category Debuggers)
    the debugging target by eliminating the need for finding and installing specific symbols version on the debug host. Microsoft has a public symbol server...
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  • Program database (category Debugging data formats)
    needed] When a program is debugged, the debugger loads debugging information from the PDB file and uses it to locate symbols or relate current execution...
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    as code refactoring. The integrated debugger works as both a source-level debugger and as a machine-level debugger. Other built-in tools include a code...
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  • separation of debugging data from executable files, improved description of macros and source files, faster searching for symbols, improved debugging of optimized...
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  • can load into a debugger. Dr. Watson can be made to generate more exacting information for debugging purposes if the appropriate symbol files are installed...
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  • Stabs (category Debugging data formats)
    provision for storing debugging information. Stabs works around this problem by encoding the information using special entries in the symbol table. At one stage...
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  • Microsoft Symbol Server is a Windows technology used to obtain symbol debugging information. It is built by using the SymSrv technology that is bundled...
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  • local debug symbols if any, then private symbols, then external symbols, and finally the undefined symbols that link to another binary symbol table containing...
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  • Service Pack 5 for Windows NT 4, Microsoft had neglected to remove the debugging symbols in ADVAPI32.DLL, a library used for advanced Windows features such...
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  • "include" } files { "src/**.h", "src/**.cpp" } configuration "Debug" symbols "On" defines { "_DEBUG" } configuration "Release" flags { "Optimize" } defines...
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  • required when the address of a symbol name, or the symbol name of an address, is needed. It is especially useful for debugging kernel panics and kernel oopses...
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  • variables, and continue execution. If debugging symbols were available, a crashed machine could be remote debugged from anywhere on earth. In his final...
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  • A weak symbol denotes a specially annotated symbol during linking of Executable and Linkable Format (ELF) object files. By default, without any annotation...
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    Dynamic Debugging Technique (DDT) is a series of debugger programs originally developed for Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) hardware, initially known...
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  • Gdbserver (category Debuggers)
    possible to remotely debug other programs. Running on the same system as the program to be debugged, it allows the GNU Debugger to connect from another...
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  • Wing IDE (section Debugger)
    value of all symbols in the editor Recursive debugging of code invoked in the context of another debug stack frame Convenient Restart Debugging tool Track...
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  • that make decompilation quite feasible. The application of debug data, i.e. debug-symbols, may enable to reproduce the original names of variables and...
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  • in general, however, non-stripped executables and executables with debugging symbols are easier to instrument. Iroh.js is a runtime code analysis library...
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