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Now I’m wondering when the term “debug symbols” came along and if there was something they called it before that. Google shows no results for “debug symbols” fr
by emh68 9y ago
Now I’m wondering when the term “debug symbols” came along and if there was something they called it before that. Google shows no results for “debug symbols” from before 1990, but I have definitely heard of fortran-to-lisp tools and whatnot that are definitely comparable from the 70s.
- gumby 9y agoI first encountered debugging symbols in 1977, so it's an old idea (and I designed objdump, bfd etc to dredge through them).