Re: [hatari-devel] SozobonX symbol table format

[Eero Tamminen <oak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

On 9.5.2023 10.55, Thorsten Otto wrote:
> i just found that SozobonX does not seem to use the flags for marking long
> names (0x0048) to extend symbol names to 22 character, but rather absolute
> symbols with flags of 0xa200 and a value of $87654321 to extend the name of
> the previous entry (actually a more clever approach, since this would also
> work with linkers that do not understand long names, and allows extending
> names to arbirary size, not imposing another limit of 22 characters).
>
> Is there any demand on supporting such symbol tables? If so, i could try
> prepare a patch for it.

As we discussed in Atari-forum e.g. Holger Weets (author of ST-GUIDE, 
some GEM games etc) used SozobonX a lot.

I do not think any of his programs in the FTP sites came with debug 
symbols though...

I would also assume that nobody is using SozobonX anymore, as there are 
some better options nowadays.

I.e. are there any existing SozobonX binaries with symbols?


	- Eero