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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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