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From: Bob Eager
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2018 19:42

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On Fri, 02 Mar 2018 17:24:00 +0000, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> Perhaps I overgeneralized.  Indeed, a freestanding cross-reference
> utility would have to do a lot of work to provide more than the line
> number in which a symbol was defined and the line numbers in which it
> was referenced.  The assembler or compiler, on the other hand, knows the
> symbol's value, length attribute, type attribute, relocation attribute,
> etc.  If it writes these out to a work file,
> along with line numbers where the symbol is used, it's possible to
> generate a pretty comprehensive report from the result.

That is exactly what the DEC assemblers did on many of their systems.

I was also, I suppose, making the point that the symbol table and the 
cross reference have very different uses. A symbol table is usually more 
cmpact (several columns) which can be useful.



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