Category Archives: Symbols

Symbols on Linux Part Three: Linux versus Windows

Posted on February 20, 2013 by brucedawson

After many years programming solely on Windows I have recently started working on Linux. This is the third post in a series of tutorials that will share what I have learned about handling Linux symbols. This third post explains how … Continue reading →

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Symbols on Linux Part Two: Symbols for Other Versions

Posted on January 19, 2013 by brucedawson

After many years programming solely on Windows I have recently started working on Linux – Ubuntu to be precise. This is the second post in a series of tutorials that will share what I have learned about handling Linux symbols. … Continue reading →

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Symbols on Linux Part One: g++ Library Symbols

Posted on January 8, 2013 by brucedawson

After many years programming solely on Windows I have recently started working on Linux – Ubuntu to be precise. One of the things that I have had to learn is the very different ways in which Linux developers deal with … Continue reading →

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Xperf Symbol Loading Pitfalls

Posted on October 4, 2012 by brucedawson

Analyzing xperf traces is virtually impossible if you don’t have symbols. Unfortunately the xperf toolkit makes it easy to end up with symbols that takes hours to load, or don’t load at all. Update, July 2020: this blog post is … Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two Call Stacks

Posted on November 27, 2011 by brucedawson

My kingdom for some symbols I spend a large portion of my time at work trying to make things faster and less crashy. Usually the problems I investigate are in our own code so I have full information – source … Continue reading →

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