symorder(1) [bsd man page]

SYMORDER(1)						      General Commands Manual						       SYMORDER(1)

NAME

       symorder - rearrange name list

SYNOPSIS

       symorder symlist file

DESCRIPTION

       The file symlist contains a list of symbols to be found in file, one symbol per line.

       The symbol table of file is updated in place; symbols read from symlist are relocated to the beginning of the table and in the order given.

       This program was specifically designed to cut down on the overhead of getting symbols from the kernel name list.

DIAGNOSTICS

       The symorder(1) utility exits 0 on success, non zero if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

       nm(1), nlist(3), strip(1)

HISTORY

       The symorder command appeared in 3.0BSD.

4th Berkeley Distribution					 January 22, 1994						       SYMORDER(1)

DBSYM(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 						  DBSYM(8)

NAME

     dbsym -- copy kernel symbol table into db_symtab space

SYNOPSIS

     dbsym [-v] [-b bfdname] kernel

DESCRIPTION

     dbsym is used to copy the symbol table in a newly linked kernel into the db_symtab array (in the data section) so that the ddb(4) kernel
     debugger can find the symbols.  This program is only used on systems for which the boot program does not load the symbol table into memory
     with the kernel.  The space for these symbols is reserved in the data segment using a config option like:

     options	    SYMTAB_SPACE=72000

     The size of the db_symtab array (the value of SYMTAB_SPACE) must be at least as large as the kernel symbol table.	If insufficient space is
     reserved, dbsym will refuse to copy the symbol table.

     To recognize kernel executable format, the -b flag specifies BFD name of kernel.

     If the -v flag is given, dbsym will print out status information as it is copying the symbol table.

     Note that debugging symbols are not useful to the ddb(4) kernel debugger, so to minimize the size of the kernel, one should either compile
     the kernel without debugging symbols (no -g flag) or use the strip(1) command to strip debugging symbols from the kernel before dbsym is used
     to copy the symbol table.	The command

     strip -d netbsd

     will strip out debugging symbols.

SEE ALSO

     strip(1), ddb(4)

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