Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!harvard!seismo!mcvax!kddlab!ccut!tansei!y30203
From: y30203@tansei.UUCP (KINOSHITA Yoshiki)
Newsgroups: net.unix,net.unix-wizards
Subject: Symbol table format for dbx (In n)
Message-ID: <390@tansei.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 20-Jun-86 05:33:51 EDT
Article-I.D.: tansei.390
Posted: Fri Jun 20 05:33:51 1986
Date-Received: Sun, 22-Jun-86 12:33:00 EDT
Distribution: net
Organization: University of Tokyo, Japan.
Lines: 21
Xref: linus net.unix:7634 net.unix-wizards:15482


	Could anyone out there kindly give me [a pointer to] the information
about the symbol table format for dbx(1) of UNIX 4.2BSD and Ultrix?

	Looking forward to make my Modula-2 compiler emit the object code
with enough information for symbolic debugging with dbx, I have examined manual
pages for stab(5), dbx(1), a.out(5) and also the reference manual of the
VAX assembler (as).  However, information available through those documents
is all for sdb, NOT for dbx.

	I know, of course, that an obvious way to get such information
is just to read and struggle with the source code of dbx.  However, before
taking this time-consuming approach, I would like to know if someone knows
about the existence [does it ever exist?] of document or memorandum of
this debugger.



Thanks in advance,

						Y. Kinoshita