Symbol Handling

The symbol handler functions give applications easy and portable access to the symbolic debugging information of an executable image. These functions are used exclusively to ensure access to symbolic information. This is necessary because these functions isolate the application from the symbol format.

For more information, see the following topics:

• Symbol Handler Initialization
• Symbol Paths
• Symbol Loading
• Deferred Symbol Loading
• Decorated Symbol Names
• Finding Symbols
• Public, Global, and Local Symbols
• Symbol Handler Cleanup