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Re: GDB: without symbol name?
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Re: GDB: without symbol name?


  • Subject: Re: GDB: without symbol name?
  • From: Andrew Farmer <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 14:32:15 -0800

On 05 Mar 06, at 12:05, Greg Herlihy wrote:
The question marks indicate gdb's confusion about the method you have chosen
to solve the problem of creating a custom dictionary document. After all,
the dictionaries that Dictionary.app uses are XML files. So gdb cannot
figure you why you are not using an XML editor to create your own dictionary
documents. And the question marks are simply gdb's way of communicating all
that information.

What?

The question marks indicate that the code that is being debugged doesn't have
debug symbols. GDB is definitely not an XML editor, and the original poster
knows this full well. There's absolutely no way you could even use it as one!


The correct answer to the poster's question is that there are two kinds of
symbols involved - Objective-C symbols, and debugging symbols. GDB only looks
for the latter, which are only present in debugging builds; the former are
required in all Objective-C programs, as they're used by the runtime.


As far as dictionary files go, they're XML. The format is defined at the URL
given at the head of the file. It's not exactly the same, but, if you look at
the dictionary files provided in the OS, you can probably figure out the
format well enough.

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