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From: Broeker AT PROBLEM_WITH_INEWS_DOMAIN_FILE (Hans-Bernhard Broeker)
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Subject: Re: What is symify? Is this in the V2 FAQ?
Date: 17 May 1996 17:22:25 GMT
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Paul Derbyshire (ao950 AT FreeNet DOT Carleton DOT CA) wrote:

> What is symify? It keeps getting mentioned here. Or is this in the V2 faq?
> (I still have only the v1 faq.)

Bad choice. Go and get the V2 FAQ, definitely.

As to symify, that's a small program that can decode the traceback you
get when your program crashes at run time into function names and line
numbers, provided you compiled your program using the '-g' switch.
Just call 'symify prog' with the traceback report still on the screen,
it will rewrite the information in place. (A note: you *must* have
compiled with "gcc -o prog", *not* with "gcc -o prog.exe" for this to
work. It needs the file "prog", not "prog.exe"). In a nutshell, it's a
last-resort debugger.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker (Aachen, Germany)