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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: the global symbol table
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>  > * So just what's going on with the usage of minimal symbols in
>  >   lookup_symbol?  Are there any situations where looking in the
>  >   minimal symbol is actually helpful?  If so, do those only have to do
>  >   with ickiness related to mangled names, or is there a more serious
>  >   issue that I'm missing?
>  > 
> 
> debugging something compiled w/o -g. 
> Assembly only debugging can also be very tricky.

Yes, see nodebug.exp.

Andrew