Re: [hatari-devel] Is it me or the symbols prg option is broken ?

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On torstai 12 kesäkuu 2014, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> I compile Racer with the following options as I always did before:
> 
> opt    p=68030/68882,NOCASE,D+,X+
> 
> Then, I run Racer and break it in the main menu, but I get the following
> 
> error message:
>  > symbols prg
> 
> ERROR: no program loaded (through GEMDOS HD emu)!

Because autoloading of the symbols failed, Hatari removed information about
the program path from debug symbol code.  That's why you get this strange
error on following "symbols prg" commands.  I commited an improvement which
allows you seeing the errors again.

What error you get from symbols autoloading?


	- Eero

> Laurent
> 
> Le 11/06/2014 23:09, Eero Tamminen a écrit :
> > Hi,
> > 
> > On keskiviikko 11 kesäkuu 2014, Laurent Sallafranque wrote:
> >> I can't use symbols prg with the latest release.
> > 
> > What this means?
> > 
> >> Is it me or something is broken here ?
> > 
> > Nowadays Hatari nowadays loads symbols automatically if program has
> > them.
> > 
> > Note that:
> > 
> > * with GCC you need to ask linker to generate old style (DRI) symbols..
> > 
> >    More detailed a.out format symbols you need to output with nm and
> >    read as separate ASCII symbols file.
> > 
> > * if you're using VBCC, make sure that you use a version with fixed
> > linker.
> > 
> >    Older VBCC linker used broken data/bss symbol offsets.  For those
> >    you need to use gst2ascii program and load symbols as ASCII.
> > 	
> > 	- Eero