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Debug symbol

Okay kiddo, imagine you're trying to build a giant Lego castle with lots of tiny pieces. But when you put it all together, something isn't working. You don't know which little piece is causing the problem, so you can't fix it.

A debug symbol is like a special tag that you put on each little Lego piece that tells you exactly what it is and where it goes in the castle. It's like a map that helps you find your way.

When you build your castle with the debug symbols, and something doesn't work, you can look at the symbols to figure out which little piece is causing the problem. Then you can fix it and your castle works perfectly!

In computer programming, a debug symbol is a little bit of extra information that a programmer adds to their code. This information helps them figure out what went wrong if the program doesn't work as expected. Just like the Lego pieces, each part of the code has a debug symbol that tells the programmer what it does and where it's supposed to go.

So, to sum it up, debug symbols are like maps that help programmers find their way through their code and figure out what's going wrong.
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