On Sun, 2002-12-01 at 12:57, kcorey wrote:

> I'm using Falch.net's Developer studio 2.7 and PRC-tools.  I've tried
> going into the command line and trying to examine things using the 'nm'
> command, but it doesn't understand the format of the binary
> (understandably).

There is a nm that comes with prc-tools called m68k-palmos-nm that will
understand the binary. Even more important for debugging multisegment
issues is to generate a map file at compile time. Use the compiler
options

  -Wl,-Map -Wl,myprog.map

> Can anyone point to a resource on the web, in a book, etc, that really
> makes multi-segmented applications clear (including things like how to
> figure out size of functions, which functions are good candidates to
> move to another segment, why it's possible for the profiler to report
> that MemSemaphoreRelease could possibly used 10000 bytes of stack on a
> machine that's supposed to have a 3.25K stack, etc). 

A map file will help you with this.

-- 
Dave Carrigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Seattle, WA, USA
http://www.rudedog.org/
UNIX-Apache-Perl-Linux-Firewalls-LDAP-C-C++-DNS-PalmOS-PostgreSQL-MySQL


-- 
For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see 
http://www.palmos.com/dev/support/forums/

Reply via email to