Re: [hatari-devel] Loading symbol info from program DRI/GST symbol table

[Laurent Sallafranque <laurent.sallafranque@xxxxxxx>]

> You could try whether "OPT X+" would give you longer symbol names
> as DRI symbols are limited to 8 characters...


I was just about to write again for this.
The perfect combo is D+,X+


Great news.
Hatari becomes a really powerful tool for coding nowadays.

Laurent

PS : forget my last asking.
With the TAB completion, it's quite easy to get the label I need nearly 
immediatly.

Laurent


Le 08/04/2013 20:09, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> On maanantai 08 huhtikuu 2013, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> > That's absolutely perfect !
> >
> > OPT D+ was the answer.
> You could try whether "OPT X+" would give you longer symbol names
> as DRI symbols are limited to 8 characters...
>
>
> > Eero, the symbols directly in the debugger is really a great
> > improvement, thanks a lot.
> Good you liked it.  :-)
>
> I'm currently doing some stuff which will help to automatically
> get profile data for slow frames.  All it requires in your program
> would be:
> - symbol for frame start
> - symbol for variable telling how many VBLs was spent by
>    previous frame
>
> This should be pretty useful in debugging why demo or game
> isn't as smooth as it should be.
>
>
> 	- Eero
>
> > Le 08/04/2013 04:24, Miro Kropác(ek a écrit :
> > >      According to my Devpac v2 manual, Devpac's linker generates DRI
> > >      symbol table
> > >      with "-D" option and "-X" option produces extended symbol
> > >      information (hopefully same as GST).
> > >
> > > If I'm not mistaken, you can set this directly in Devpac, either in
> > > Options or as OPT directive directly in the source. For example OPT D-
> > > disables symbols, I guess OPT D+ enables them.
> > >
> > >      As for GCC, at least by default GCC outputs a.out format symbol
> > >      table, I don't know whether there's an option to generate DRI/GST
> > >      format.
> > >
> > > -Wl,--traditional-format