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From: Bob Eager
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 23:00

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On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:41:20 -0600, Charles Richmond wrote:

> Cross references were good to use with a hex dump of your program.  In
> the early 1980's I used a cross reference and a hex dump to find the
> value of FORTRAN variables at the time the program crashed.
> numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
> 
> Using DDT under TOPS-10 or dbx under Unix, or gdb under Linux... one can
> find the value of variables when the program "dumped core".  This
> obviated the need for a cross reference.

I think that's conflating two separate things:
a) cross reference
b) symbol table




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