Talk:Debug symbol

Merge?
I wonder whether this article should be merged into Debugging data format. Much of this information is about debug data in general, rather than being specific to debug symbols. What do other contributors think? CWC 12:38, 24 December 2009 (UTC)

Other OS?
This article focuses heavily on Windows and Microsoft, pleas consider mentioning other OSes as well. 173.81.25.50 (talk) 19:02, 19 October 2010 (UTC)

Vandalism
This article underwent an act of vandalism of the address 75.139.254.117 by submerging it by quotations such as : Citation Needed, Who, Why, How Much, Which for any reason !--PhiberOptik (talk) 15:54, 30 January 2017 (UTC)

External symbol
There is a link from Linker (computing) for what should be External symbol. It seems to me that this is the wrong place, but I don't know a better one. Gah4 (talk) 09:37, 1 September 2022 (UTC)

Wrong heading
The page should be titled Debug Info rather than Debug Symbol. The descriptions are about the debug info than the debug symbols. Wikieditor 2027 (talk) 11:21, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * The items in a symbol table are symbols. If they are enriched with info about the location in the source files, they are usually referred to as "debug symbols". Kleuske (talk) 11:25, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Not sure about that, because the gcc clearly gives a section in object code named as 'Disassembly of section .debug_info: '.
 * And a page for debug symbol is not necessary imo. That could have been a subsection in the Debug Info page. Wikieditor 2027 (talk) 11:33, 11 July 2023 (UTC)

Recent edit
Edit permalink/1233783061 removed a paragraph from, leaving without a referent.-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 08:43, 11 July 2024 (UTC)
 * I changed it to just "Debugging information". However, it's true regardless of whether debugging symbols are in the object/executable/shared library file or in separate files, so it's a motivation for either 1) stripping symbols from a file or 2) not shipping files debugging-information files. Guy Harris (talk) 08:51, 11 July 2024 (UTC)