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From: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Symbol table?
Message-ID: <3157@drivax.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 88 19:59:07 GMT
References: <19880303204623.4.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Reply-To: holloway@drivax.UUCP (Bruce Holloway)
Organization: Digital Research, Inc.
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In article <19880303204623.4.JRD@GRACKLE.SCRC.Symbolics.COM> jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:

 >While fixing the GNU linker so that it'd run on my ST, I had just
 >finished the part that writes the symbol table into the executable file,
 >when I realized that I couldn't think of anything that would use it once
 >I'd written it (!)  Is there anything that can make use of the symbol
 >info in an executable?  

Debuggers can.

 >Also, when one loads an executable, where in memory does the symbol info
 >get loaded?  Does the TPA point to it?

The normal program loader discards it. SID and DDT load programs differently,
and keep the info around.

- Bruce
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