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Re: the global symbol table

From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
Cc: David Carlton <carlton at math dot stanford dot edu>,gdb <gdb at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002 17:02:24 -0400
Subject: Re: the global symbol table
References: <ro1znu5on6l.fsf@jackfruit.Stanford.EDU> <15762.8708.250726.680566@localhost.redhat.com>

> * So just what's going on with the usage of minimal symbols in
> lookup_symbol? Are there any situations where looking in the
> minimal symbol is actually helpful? If so, do those only have to do
> with ickiness related to mangled names, or is there a more serious
> issue that I'm missing?
>
debugging something compiled w/o -g. Assembly only debugging can also be very tricky.

Yes, see nodebug.exp.

Andrew

References:
- the global symbol table
  - From: David Carlton
- Re: the global symbol table
  - From: Elena Zannoni

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