From:	eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: symify problem
Date:	21 Oct 2002 11:24:25 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii (eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il) wrote:

: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:

: > Should symify check the debug symbol type and warn if it's not coff
: > and it can't find bfdsymify?

: I'm not sure.  SYMIFY should not use the screen estate for anything that 
: is not essential.  We should not risk scrolling parts of the crash 
: message off the screen, IMHO.

: Perhaps a simple "(no COFF debug info)" somewhere would suffice, assuming 
: we can find a place that doesn't use another screen line.

The line "Call frame traceback EIPs:" could become "Call frame
traceback EIPs, N.B. no coff debug information:".

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