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		sergiomattei on June 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Actix-web 1.0 – A small, pragmatic, and fast web f... Sorry for the ignorance - what's symbolication? Sounds interesting and looking to learn.

staticassertion on June 5, 2019 [–]

I assume it's taking stack traces/ core dumps from stripped binaries and adding back the symbols.

the_mitsuhiko on June 5, 2019 | [–]

Yap, pretty much. It's used as part of the sentry event processing pipeline for C/C++/Objective-C/Rust etc. crashes.

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