Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/31/22:33:29
mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca 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).
Symify reads the stack traceback values and uses those to scan the
executable. Since the eip is usually the topmost stack value, this is
essentially the same thing.
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* Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen,
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* Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens
again.
* It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
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