Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!hplabs!hpfcdc!marc From: marc@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Marc[e] Sabatella) Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp Subject: Re: Debugging information in a.out Message-ID: <5570264@hpfcdc.HP.COM> Date: 11 Aug 89 15:59:01 GMT References: <353@node17.mecazh.UUCP> Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co. Lines: 13 >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. -------------- Marc Sabatella HP Colorado Language Lab marc%hpfcrt@hplabs.hp.com