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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Peter, can you explain to the Amigoids (was: NeXT software size
Message-ID: <1991May9.172113.2468@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX
References: <11877@uwm.edu> <xn8Gty-&1@cs.psu.edu> <3320.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
Date: Thu, 9 May 1991 17:21:13 GMT

In article <3320.tnews@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
> Quoted from <xn8Gty-&1@cs.psu.edu> by melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger):
> > The symbol table is include with the executable(I'm pretty sure of

>     Gak. Surely this isn't the usual case?

Yes, but it doesn't get loaded into RAM. It's very useful, particularly on
UNIX where you can restart a crashed or killed program under the debugger.
-- 
Peter da Silva.   `-_-'
<peter@sugar.hackercorp.com>.
