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From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 01:11

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On 2018-03-01, Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote:

> On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 16:41:20 -0600, Charles Richmond wrote:
>
>> Cross references were good to use with a hex dump of your program.  In
>> the early 1980's I used a cross reference and a hex dump to find the
>> value of FORTRAN variables at the time the program crashed.
>> numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
>> 
>> Using DDT under TOPS-10 or dbx under Unix, or gdb under Linux... one
>> can find the value of variables when the program "dumped core".  This
>> obviated the need for a cross reference.
>
> I think that's conflating two separate things:
> a) cross reference
> b) symbol table

A cross-reference listing is a symbol table dump with reference data added.

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From: Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid>
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