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The meaning of lowercase symbol type of nm
- From: Peng Yu <pengyu dot ut at gmail dot com>
- To: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2019 18:29:14 -0600
- Subject: The meaning of lowercase symbol type of nm
Hi,
man nm says this.
o The symbol type. At least the following types are used; others
are, as well, depending on the object file format. If lowercase, the
symbol is usually local;
What does "usually" mean here? Is there an example when it is not
local yet it is still in lower case? Thanks.
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Regards,
Peng