SYMBOL TABLE:
00000000 l df *ABS* 00000000 m.c
00000000 l d .text 00000000 .text
00000000 l d .data 00000000 .data
00000000 l d .bss 00000000 .bss
00000000 l d .note.GNU-stack 00000000 .note.GNU-stack
00000000 l d .comment 00000000 .comment
00000000 g O .data 00000004 i
00000004 g O .data 00000004 j
00000000 g F .text 00000039 main
00000000 *UND* 00000000 sum
The other common output format, usually seen with ELF based files, looks like this:
00000000 l d .bss 00000000 .bss
00000000 g .text 00000000 fred
Here the first number is the symbol's value (sometimes refered to as its address). The next field is actually a set of characters and spaces indicating the flag bits that are set on the symbol. These characters are described below. Next is the section with which the symbol is associated or *ABS* if the section is absolute (ie not connected with any section), or *UND* if the section is referenced in the file being dumped, but not defined there.
After the section name comes another field, a number, which for common symbols is the alignment and for other symbol is the size. Finally the symbol's name is displayed.
The flag characters are divided into 7 groups as follows:
l
g
u
!
The symbol is a local (l), global (g), unique global (u), neither global nor local (a space) or both global and local (!). A symbol can be neither local or global for a variety of reasons, e.g., because it is used for debugging, but it is probably an indication of a bug if it is ever both local and global. Unique global symbols are a GNU extension to the standard set of ELF symbol bindings. For such a symbol the dynamic linker will make sure that in the entire process there is just one symbol with this name and type in use.
w
The symbol is weak (w) or strong (a space).
C
The symbol denotes a constructor (C) or an ordinary symbol (a space).
W
The symbol is a warning (W) or a normal symbol (a space). A warning symbol's name is a message to be displayed if the symbol following the warning symbol is ever referenced.
I
i
The symbol is an indirect reference to another symbol (I), a function to be evaluated during reloc processing (i) or a normal symbol (a space).
d
D
The symbol is a debugging symbol (d) or a dynamic symbol (D) or a normal symbol (a space).
F
f
O
The symbol is the name of a function (F) or a file (f) or an object (O) or just a normal symbol (a space).