jxt@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (04/24/91)
The problem I have is as follows. It takes me over half an hour to create a link with the development platform. This seems to be a tremendous waste of time, to just test out a single bug fix/mod in a file. ( BTW I use dbxtool for debugging. ) I have used another workstation which was running a flavor of System V. In this environment, we could stay in the debugger (sbd), and compile the individual file which needed to be modified, and then invoke a locally developed tool which would do a dynamic link with new .o file. [ My understanding is that it searched for the symbols corresponding to the .o file, and relocated them from their locations in the symbol table, to the very end...... ] One could thereafter carry on with the testing and debugging. This may be termed as a "dynamic loader", for want of a better name. Is some such tool practical in the SUNOS and dbxtool ? Does anybody know of such a tool for the SUN4 machines. Is it in the public domain ? I would very much appreciate relevant info. * Statutory Disclaimer : These are merely my views. * * Jawahar M. Tembulkar, Computervision, R & D, * * 9805 Scranton Road, San Diego, CA, 92121, USA. * * UUCP : uunet!calmasd!jxt voice : (619) 587-3078 *