Re: [Valgrind-users] "object doesn't have a symbol table" = no -g ?

[Igmar P. <mai...@jd...>]

Hi,

> Hi.  My name is Darrik Mazey.  I'm new to valgrind, and whilst trying to
> track down a memory leak (running valgrind --tool=memcheck
> --leak-check=full), I get a lot of lines reading "object doesn't have a
> symbol table" referencing a shared library.  Does this indicate that the
> library was compiled without g++'s -g option?

Yes. It't usually the package manager which strips binaries and 
executables. Some platforms have special debiug packages, which installs 
files that contain the symbol table.


Regards,

 	Igmar