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Article #31104Re: Symbol table?
From: Bruce Holloway
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1988 19:59
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 1988 19:59
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In article <19880303204623.4.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes: >While fixing the GNU linker so that it'd run on my ST, I had just >finished the part that writes the symbol table into the executable file, >when I realized that I couldn't think of anything that would use it once >I'd written it (!) Is there anything that can make use of the symbol >info in an executable? Debuggers can. >Also, when one loads an executable, where in memory does the symbol info >get loaded? Does the TPA point to it? The normal program loader discards it. SID and DDT load programs differently, and keep the info around. - Bruce -- ******************************************************************************* * Bruce Holloway - Terminal Netnews Addict uunet!amdahl!drivax!holloway * * ALBATROSS, ATARI*TROS @ Plink ALBATROSS @ Delphi * ************Cuzqoirm mluyh, "Ulu! Buyrf xumh megjux ubb nuth juq!"*************
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!think!ames!amdahl!drivax!holloway From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Symbol table? Message-ID: <3157@drivax.UUCP> Date: 7 Mar 88 19:59:07 GMT References: <19880303204623.4.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway) Organization: Digital Research, Inc. Lines: 21