sam@think.COM (Sam Kendall) (08/22/86)
In article <6425@sun.uucp> guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) writes: >3) The System V, Release 2 "lorder" doesn't have "/[TD] /" anywhere in it, >and line 19 is in the middle of a comment. No, actually, there are two different SVR2 lorders. Originally, as I reconstruct it, the COFF was put in place, along with a new and totally different output format for nm(1). Then two different groups went off to make System V's, and each independently found that the new nm format broke the lorder shell script. The two groups solved it in different ways: one group added an undocumented nm option to produce old-style output, so that lorder could remain basically unchanged. The other group rewrote lorder to use the new nm output format; and it can't have been easy, because the new format is complicated and poorly documented. Anyway, on the 3B20 (and VAX?) lorder _does_ have "/[TD] /" in it, and nm has the undocumented compatibility option; but on the 3B2 lorder does not have "/[TD] /", and nm does not have the option. (It's possible I have the 3B20 and 3B2 reversed here.) --- Sam Kendall sam@godot.think.com Thinking Machines Corp. ihnp4!think!sam
guy@sun.uucp (Guy Harris) (08/25/86)
> Anyway, on the 3B20 (and VAX?) lorder _does_ have "/[TD] /" in it, and > nm has the undocumented compatibility option... Not on the VAX, or at least not on System V, Release 2, (Version 1) for the VAX. -- Guy Harris {ihnp4, decvax, seismo, decwrl, ...}!sun!guy guy@sun.com (or guy@sun.arpa)