Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/07/27/07:27:25
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, a long, LONG time ago,
In a galaxy not so far away.
> DJ asked for a version of
> SYMIFY that would be based on BFD functions, rather than on our
> private syms.c from libdbg.a:
The great lord did thus speak:
> > Better, would someone like to write a version of stubify based on
> > binutils's "addr2line" program, and get it included into binutils?
> > That way, we'd automatically support whatever new object/debug formats
> > come out.
>
> Well, it took more than a year,
Frought with many titanic battles.
> but I finally got to making it happen.
The final battle made the others look like a kiddies fight.
> I called the program BFDSYMIFY, but that's a temporary name (it also
> exceeds DOS 8+3 limits, which isn't very nice), so if you have a
> better name, I am open to suggestions.
How about just `symify' and ditch the old one?
Sorry, couldn't help the humor. Your openning line was just begging for
it.
Really sorry about the anti-climax, but what can I say?
I've yet to get DJGPP going on my system (cross build: Linux), so I
can't give any feedback on the new symify's operation.
Bill
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