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Re: how does GDB find the symbols?

"Lucy Zhang" <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu> writes:
> I'm converting a coredump into the ELF format. At first, the outputs in GDB
> came out blank, i.e.
> #0 0x40091aa5 in ?? ()
> 
> 
> But after I added some other infomation, now I get the symbols filled in.
> i.e.
> 
> #0 0x40091aa5 in sigset (sig=-1073747472, disp=0x20) at
>     ../sysdeps/posix/sigset.c:69
> 
> Where does GDB find the function names, the arg lists, and other such
> information?

>From the executable file's debugging info.
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