Re: Need help Turbo Debugging code in a library

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From: Frank Whaley
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 05:58

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In article <1990Sep6.174743.13108@odin.corp.sgi.com>,
nelson@bolyard.wpd.sgi.com (Nelson Bolyard) writes:
>Recently, I used tlib to put a bunch of my .OBJ files into a .lib file
>and changed my makefile to have tcc pick up the .lib file.  When I tried
>to step through the .exe with TD386, I discovered to my dismay that all the
>debugging information for the code in the library was absent from the .exe
>file.  The TD386 CPU window showed me no line number information nor source 
>for any of the routines in the library.

Your error was in using TLINK.  For some unfathomable reason the 2.0 version
of TLINK strips symbolic debugging information.  Other library managers do
not do this.  I use Plib86 because they include a time-stamp that is
recognized by my make program, although LIB otherwise works just as well.
-- 
Frank Whaley
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