Talk:Debug symbol
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Merge?
editI wonder whether this article should be merged into Debugging data format. Much of this information is about debug data in general, rather than being specific to debug symbols. What do other contributors think? CWC 12:38, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
Other OS?
editThis article focuses heavily on Windows and Microsoft, pleas consider mentioning other OSes as well. 173.81.25.50 (talk) 19:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)
Vandalism
editThis article underwent an act of vandalism of the address 75.139.254.117 by submerging it by quotations such as : Citation Needed, Who, Why, How Much, Which for any reason !--PhiberOptik (talk) 15:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
There is a link from Linker (computing) for what should be External symbol. It seems to me that this is the wrong place, but I don't know a better one. Gah4 (talk) 09:37, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
Wrong heading
editThe page should be titled Debug Info rather than Debug Symbol. The descriptions are about the debug info than the debug symbols. Wikieditor 2027 (talk) 11:21, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- The items in a symbol table are symbols. If they are enriched with info about the location in the source files, they are usually referred to as "debug symbols". Kleuske (talk) 11:25, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
- Not sure about that, because the gcc clearly gives a section in object code named as 'Disassembly of section .debug_info: '.
- And a page for debug symbol is not necessary imo. That could have been a subsection in the Debug Info page. Wikieditor 2027 (talk) 11:33, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
Recent edit
edit@Guy Harris: Edit permalink/1233783061 removed a paragraph from Debug symbol § Embedded symbols, leaving All of this additional information
without a referent.-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 08:43, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
- @Chatul: I changed it to just "Debugging information". However, it's true regardless of whether debugging symbols are in the object/executable/shared library file or in separate files, so it's a motivation for either 1) stripping symbols from a file or 2) not shipping files debugging-information files. Guy Harris (talk) 08:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
Confusing term debug symbol
editMany interactive debuggers allow the user to define temporary symbols during a debug session, and references to these may have different syntax from references to symbols in the executable's symbol table. I believe that a different name for the article may be appropriate. Further, if the article is not moved to a different name I believe that a citation is needed for this specific meaning of the term debug symbol. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:29, 2 August 2024 (UTC)