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<title>About Symbolics Files</title>
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<h2>About Symbolics Files</h2>
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<p>A symbolics file contains debugging information that the IDE generates for a computer program. The debugger uses this information to control program execution. For example, the debugger uses the symbolics file to find the source code that corresponds to the executing object code of the computer program.</p>
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<p>Symbolics files contain this information:</p>
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  <li>Routine names</li>
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  <li>Variables names</li>
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  <li>Variable locations in source code</li>
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  <li>Variable locations in object code</li>
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<p>The IDE supports several types of symbolics files. Some programs generate separate symbolic files, while others do not. For example, when you use the Freescale CodeView on Windows program, the IDE places the symbolics file inside the generated binary file.</p>
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<div id="footer">Copyright &copy; 2010 Nokia Corporation and/or its subsidiary(-ies). All rights reserved. <br>License: <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html">http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html</a></div>
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