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From: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Symbol table?
Message-ID: <225@laura.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 88 23:41:52 GMT
References: <19880303204623.4.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Reply-To: hmm@laura.UUCP (Hans-Martin Mosner)
Organization: University of Dortmund, W-Germany
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In article <19880303204623.4.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
>
>  Is there anything that can make use of the symbol
>info in an executable?  
Of course, SID (comes with Atari's Dev Kit) does it.  I don't like SID too
much, but when you've got no choice, it's better than nothing...
We've used it a lot when we ported Smalltalk-80 to the Atari.  We used the
C-compiler on a unix system (to minimize portability hassles) and converted
the binary into the Atari executable format (all on the unix box).
Only the binary was tranferred to the Atari.
>
>Also, when one loads an executable, where in memory does the symbol info
>get loaded?  Does the TPA point to it?
nope, it is not loaded when a program is executed normally.  Only debuggers
should read it in and make use of it.

	Hans-Martin

PS: how many other language systems for the atari produce symbol tables
or have a debugger capable of reading it ?
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