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  65. <h2 class="chapter">18 <small>GDB</small> Files</h2>
  66. <p><small>GDB</small> needs to know the file name of the program to be debugged,
  67. both in order to read its symbol table and in order to start your
  68. program. To debug a core dump of a previous run, you must also tell
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  74. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="File-Caching.html#File-Caching" accesskey="2">File Caching</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Information about <small>GDB</small>&rsquo;s file caching
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  84. <tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="Data-Files.html#Data-Files" accesskey="7">Data Files</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">GDB data files
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