No, it's not generally need. It's used to load symbols of benchmarks  
for debugging.

Ali

On Jun 9, 2008, at 2:40 PM, Sujay Phadke wrote:

> Some of the rcs files contain the loadsymbol command. Are  
> the .symbol files like a table between the source code on the  
> debugger host side and the addresses on the target? What exactly  
> does it do? I can see symbol files only for some of the spec2K  
> benchmarks, not for others. Is it required only if running m5.debug?
>
> - Sujay
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