[comp.sys.hp] Debugging information in a.out

paul@mecazh.UUCP (Paul Breslaw) (08/11/89)

Could somebody direct me to documentation about the debugging information
placed in a.out files by language processors (cc(1), pc(1), etc). I'm
interested in writing a debugger.

Paul Breslaw.


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marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc[e] Sabatella) (08/11/89)

>Could somebody direct me to documentation about the debugging information
>placed in a.out files by language processors (cc(1), pc(1), etc). I'm
>interested in writing a debugger.

If you have access to the contrib tabe, "/usr/contrib/include/symtab.h"
contains all the gory details you would need on the 300.  The 800 format
is different, and the 300 may converge to the 800 format at some release
after 7.0.  Unfortunately I do not know where the latter is documented.

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Marc Sabatella
HP Colorado Language Lab
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