From: kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 09:29:54 -0400
Message-Id: <9605171329.AA05616@quasar.bloomberg.com >
To: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <4nec8d$bmj@freenet-news.carleton.ca> (ao950@FreeNet.Carleton.CA)
Subject: Re: What is symify? Is this in the V2 FAQ?
Reply-To: kagel AT dg1 DOT bloomberg DOT com

   From: ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA (Paul Derbyshire)
   Date: 16 May 1996 04:51:25 GMT

   What is symify? It keeps getting mentioned here. Or is this in the V2 faq?
   (I still have only the v1 faq.)

It was in the V1 FAQ and other docs also.  Symify translates the addresses
displayed on screen when a DJGPP program crashes into a symbolic stack trace
using the debugging information in the executable.  Simply run:

symify  /execpath/myprog

while the dump data is still on the screen from myprog's crash.  If you have
compiled with -g (or -gn where n is 1, 2, or 3) then it will overwrite the
screen putting the corresponding funcion names and line numbers next to the
addresses.  You can then screen print or note the stack trace and know where
to begin looking for the bug that caused the crash.

-- 
Art S. Kagel, kagel AT quasar DOT bloomberg DOT com

A proverb is no proverb to you 'till life has illustrated it.  -- John Keats