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<h2 class="chapter">18 <small>GDB</small> Files</h2>
<p><small>GDB</small> needs to know the file name of the program to be debugged,
both in order to read its symbol table and in order to start your
program. To debug a core dump of a previous run, you must also tell
<small>GDB</small> the name of the core dump file.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Separate-Debug-Files.html#Separate-Debug-Files" accesskey="2">Separate Debug Files</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Debugging information in separate files
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Index-Files.html#Index-Files" accesskey="4">Index Files</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Index files speed up GDB
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Symbol-Errors.html#Symbol-Errors" accesskey="5">Symbol Errors</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Errors reading symbol files
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Data-Files.html#Data-Files" accesskey="6">Data Files</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">GDB data files
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