Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/01/31/23:08:29
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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