Tornado Reference : Tornado Utilities

xsym

NAME

xsym - extract the symbol table from a BSD a.out object module

SYNOPSIS

xsym < objMod > symTbl

DESCRIPTION

This tool reads an object module (UNIX BSD 4.3 a.out format) from standard input, and writes an object module to standard output. The output module contains only the symbol table, with no code, but is otherwise a normal, executable object module.

This tool is used to generate the VxWorks symbol table, vxWorks.sym.

FILES

a_out.h - UNIX BSD 4.3 object module header file

SEE ALSO

xsym, makeSymTbl, UNIX BSD 4.3 a.out documentation