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From:	Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Symbol table
Date:	1 Feb 2004 20:14:23 GMT
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Bill Cunningham <nospam AT nspam DOT net> wrote:
> I'd like to be able to read symbols. 

Why?  I.e. how do existing tools like objdump or gdb fail to meet your
needs?

> Can anyone tell me what this sym table means? 

Not without you specifying *what* symbol table you're referring to.
This part of the object file format used by DJGPP is the one that has
seen the most change over the history of the project.  Different
versions of GCC, called with different -g options, have wildly
different formats of symbol tables.

> coff-go32 must be DJ's own BFD.

It's really rather straight-forward COFF.  DJ has a document about it
at his web site.  To read the symbols, your best bet is to use the GNU
BFD library --- that's what the majority of other tools working on
such files do.

[And please don't post uuencoded stuff to non-binary newsgroups --- if
it can't be posted as plain text, it's almost certainly useless here,
anyway]

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Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
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