From: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:58:36 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: SIGSEV error numbers
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On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, DJ Delorie wrote:

> > So what symify actually does is gets the EIP value out of video memory
> > and scans your exe file for the location using the debug info?  I am
> > unclear of this and still kinda new to DJ. (1 year programming with
> > DJ).
> 
> "DJ" is a human (me).  "DJGPP" is a development environment.  Please
> try not to confuse the two :-)

Sorry, didn't mean to imply anything.  But don't you remember coding
with me?  <joke>

> Yes, symify reads video memory to get %eip values, then reads your
> executable's symbol table and debugging information, then writes the
> stack trace back out to video memory.

Cool.  There are a lot of neat little utilities like that that I've
never looked at because I didn't know what they did.  I think I'll
have a definate use for it now!  Thanks.

TTYL

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