Symbols

I've spent a bunch of time during the years sorting out how to manage symobls in various scenarios. I'll keep posting about updates, but consolidating things here seems like a good thing.

Libraries

• DIA SDK. The Debug Interface Access SDK.
• libelf.
• libdwarf.

Posts

• Android Exports
• BuildId on Android
• Chasing Symbols.
• Debugging Unity EntryPointNotFoundException
• Downloading node symbols
• 20 part linker essay table of contents for Ian Lance Taylor's series.

Tools

• clang.
• debuginfod
• LLDB
• LLVM.
• llvm-addr2line, a wrapper around llvm-symbolizer to mimic addr2line.
• llvm-dwarfdump, dumps and verifies DWARF debug information.
• llvm-nm, lists LLVM bitcode and object file symbol table.
• Use --dynamic to see all symbols, not just those from the symbol table.
• Use --sort-size to have them sorted by size, and then | tail to see the largest functions/variables.
• llvm-objdump, LLVM's object file dumper. You can disassembly a function with llvm-objdump --disassemble-symbols=myFunctionMangled --line-numbers library.so
• llvm-readelf, GNU-style object reader.

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