What is Symbol release?

Question

Programming

Hello. Recently, in projects written in C / C ++, there are often copies of releases marked Symbols.
Please explain what this "label" means.

Answer 1

vilgeforce is right, these are releases containing both compiled executable modules and symbols for them, for example pdb files if the project is built by Studio. Symbol files can be uploaded both together with executable modules and separately from them. This is reasonable, because symbol files are needed only for debugging; not every user of the software will debug it, so it makes no sense to always download symbols, which often weigh more than the modules themselves.
For VS, here are a few links, for other compilers, look for yourself:
stackoverflow.com/questions/72104/how-do-i-use-pdb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_database
https://msdn .microsoft.com/en-us/library/yd4f8bd1%...