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Yes, otherwise you'd never find syntax errors in the header files.
by parbo 16y ago
Yes, otherwise you'd never find syntax errors in the header files.
- scott_s 16y agoBut that's during the compilation phase - this is the compiled binary. Binaries that are compiled with debugging information turned on will include this information for a similar reason: so that when you're debugging a program, or when it breaks, you can map that to places in your source file.
- caf 16y agoRight - and `nm` uses the debugging information to identify the file:line where each symbol was defined. The original scripts used to generate the treemap use `nm`.