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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:22:07 -0800
From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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To: mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: SIGSEV error numbers
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mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca 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).

Symify reads the stack traceback values and uses those to scan the
executable.  Since the eip is usually the topmost stack value, this is
essentially the same thing.

-- 
John M. Aldrich <fighteer AT cs DOT com>                      

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* Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen,
  causes something else to happen.
* Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens
  again.
* It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though.
 
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