Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:20:37 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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	Green on Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:27:08 +0100)
Subject: Re: Symify fixes
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> From: Jason Green <mail AT jgreen4 DOT fsnet DOT co DOT uk>
> Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2000 19:27:08 +0100
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> Hmmm, I don't follow what you mean.  I have added checking to the
> symify code so that it now exits gracefully if the program _being_
> _debugged_ is corrupt, (ie nonsense values in the COFF headers).

Sorry, I thought you were trying to produce a program which will
GPFault when run.

> Attached are three patches to syms.c:

Thanks!

> The patches assume that the official syms.c is already fixed with the
> patch previously posted to c.o.m.d by Eli.

It is, I commited that patch a few days ago.