by Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli, 32)
By default, NASM places a .symtab on the executable as well.
This is only used for debugging. Without the symbols, we are completely blind, and must reverse engineer everything.
You can strip it with objcopy, and the executable will still run. Such executables are called "stripped executables".

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