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Subject: Re: Symify fixes
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> From: Jason Green <mail AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 20:43:12 +0100
> 
> The reason I asked is that the supplied makefile has the lines:
> 
> #relax error checking
> XGCC=$(XLGCC)
> 
> but the code will build with very extensive warnings turned on, so I
> was thinking those lines could be removed.  Looking again though, I
> would say those lines could be for dbgcom.c, if that's so then they
> should stay.

Yes, this relaxation is for dbgcom.c.

> I want to generate some crash dumps to test symify with to see if
> anything is broken.

Ctrl-BREAK is the usual way I do that.  It's better than SIGABRT in
that you can crash the program in different places by waiting
different amounts of time before you press Ctrl-BREAK.

> To test the robustness of symify I was going to corrupt some .exe
> file.  Again, I am open to suggestions on this.

Write a program which inserts a 0xA0000 pointer dereference at random
points of another program's source?