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Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:32:12 +1200
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Subject: Re: Symify for stabs
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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
-- 
Leave others their otherness.