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could someone please tell me what exactly is contained in the symbol table, for an executable file. Also if you could tell me of a book that explains it to novices, that would be great (please don't give me a reference in the man pages beacuse I have looked). Thanks
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could someone please tell me what exactly is contained in the symbol table, for an executable file. Also if you could tell me of a book that explains it to novices, that would be great (please don't give me a reference in the man pages beacuse I have looked). Thanks

What is contained in the symbol table

Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 at Bell Labs. Today, it is a modern OS with many commercial flavors and licensees, including FreeBSD, Hewlett-Packard’s UX, IBM AIX and Apple Mac OS-X. Apart from its command-line interface, most UNIX variations support the standardized X Window System for GUIs, with the exception of the Mac OS, which uses a proprietary system.