Re: [avr-gcc-list] Building AVARICE on Cygwin

[Joerg Wunsch]

As "Ralph Mason" <address@hidden> wrote:

>Is there any way to dump a library and see the entry points (dumpbin
>with msvc)? (my lib is just in /lib btw and I did set LD_FLAGS to
>-L/lib)

Yes, the »nm« tool does this.  It displays you the name list of an
object file (or an object file library).  What you're looking for is
symbols marked with a `T' in the second column, that's globally
defined symbols within the text segment.  The first column is the
defined value (resp. address), the third column is the actual name
defined by this entry.  Upper-case letters mark global symbols,
lower-case means a (module-)local symbol.  `D' is for data segment
symbols (initalized variables), `T' for the text segment (usually
function entry points), `W' is for `weak' global symbols which can be
overridden by the application without causing a complaint by the
linker (so a library can define an overridable default symbol).  `C'
is a ``common'' symbol, basically an uninitialized variable.  The term
`COMMON' can probably only be understood if you ever happened to
program in FORTRAN.  It's merely a historical remnant that Unix C
compilers usually declare .bss variables that way instead of actually
reserving space in .bss (which would be a `B' in the nm listing).
Common-style uninitialized variables allow for sloppy extern
declarations in header files like:

int foobar;

where the header file may be included by one or more C files.  Due to
the common-block notation, all symbols `foobar' will then be overlaid
by the linker.  This style seems to have been predominant in old Unix
source files.  The politically correct style would be to have

extern int foobar;

in the header file, and exactly one C source file with

int foobar;

(If you run gcc with -fno-common, it'll actually allocate the .bss
variables in that way so you get linker errors for the sloppy style.)

Finally, there's `U', standing for an undefined symbols,
i. e. something that needs to be resolved by the linker.
-- 
J"org Wunsch                                           Unix support engineer
address@hidden        http://www.interface-systems.de/~j/