Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 1997 12:14:32 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
cc:	Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Tracking down where GPFs occur . How? (DJGPP+Allegro)
In-Reply-To:	<199711050219.SAA15060@adit.ap.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.971105121409.460M-100000@is>
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On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Nate Eldredge wrote:

> Here's another scenario: I have a program. I think it works, so I strip it
> and install it somewhere. One day it crashes in some subtle way that I can't
> reproduce. I save the traceback. Then I go back to my source, recompile with
> `-g' and the same other options, and now I can have symify read the symbols
> from my new binary, which are in the same places as in the original. The new
> binary is probably somewhere different from the old one.

You can also have a stripped .exe installed and an unstripped raw COFF
file lying somewhere with the sources.

> But yeah, I think reading from the filename in the traceback might be a
> sensible default.

Could anybody please submit patches that make this happen to DJ?
Thanks.

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