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Date:	Tue, 7 Jun 2016 08:43:15 -0700 (MST)
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Subject:	Re: nm for .exe extensions?
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Warren Young-2 wrote
> On May 24, 2016, at 6:43 AM, Benjamin Cao <

> becao@

> > wrote:
>> 
>> The executable, when run with nm in Cygwin, results in a "no symbols"
>> result, whereas it generates a symbol table in unix.
> 
> That’s not what I see here.  Given hello.c containing a “Hello, world!”
> program:
> 
>   $ make hello
>   cc     hello.c   -o hello
>   $ nm hello.exe | wc -l
>   389
> 
> If I strip the exe, I get “No symbols,” as expected.  There’s no reason a
> finished executable should have much in the way of exported symbols
> without debug info, since it is self-contained.  You would only expect to
> get useful output from nm on a stripped binary if it’s an object file or a
> DLL.

Hi, I'm picking this issue up from my colleague, Ben Cao.  We're using
Visual Studio C++ to compile the executables/objects.  Is the issue that
Visual Studio places the information in the .pdb file?  That's why nm
doesn't display any info on an *.exe ?




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