Minimal Symbols

This header declares most of the API for dealing with minimal symbols and minimal symbol tables. A few things are declared elsewhere; see below.

A minimal symbol is a symbol for which there is no direct debug information. For example, for an ELF binary, minimal symbols are created from the ELF symbol table.

For the definition of the minimal symbol structure, see struct minimal_symbol in symtab.h.

Minimal symbols are stored in tables attached to an objfile; see objfiles.h for details. Code should generally treat these tables as opaque and use functions provided by minsyms.c to inspect them.