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Subject: Re: nm for .exe extensions?
From: Warren Young <wyml@etr-usa.com>
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Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 07:15:23 -0600
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On May 24, 2016, at 6:43 AM, Benjamin Cao <becao@progress.com> 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.

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