NAME

       gst2ascii - Output Atari program DRI/GST format symbol table

SYNOPSIS

       gst2ascii [options] <program>

DESCRIPTION

       gst2ascii  reads DRI/GST symbol table from given Atari program and outputs it in the ASCII
       format understood by Hatari debugger and its profiler data post-processor  (which  doesn't
       accept any other format).

       There  are  some options to filter the symbol table content and the resulting ASCII output
       is easy to edit also by hand, if other symbols (for e.g. loop labels) need to  be  removed
       or missing function symbols need to be added.

OPTIONS

       -n     Sort symbol output by symbol name, not by their addresses.

       -b     Filter BSS symbols out from the output.

       -b     Filter DATA symbols out from the output.

       -t     Filter TEXT symbols out from the output.

       -l     Filter  local  (.L*)  symbols out.  Usually they're useless because they don't have
              names, just numbers.

       -o     Filter symbols for object files (*.o) out.

NOTES

       If you have problems,  try  with  'nm  -n  <program>'  instead  (Atari  or  cross-compiler
       version). If nm works, but gst2ascii doesn't, please report a bug on it.

EXAMPLES

       Save 'program.prg' symbol table in ASCII format with local symbols filtered out:
            gst2ascii -l program.prg > program.sym

       Load generated ASCII symbols file in Hatari debugger:
            symbols program.sym TEXT DATA BSS

SEE ALSO

       hatari(1), hatari_profile(1)

AUTHOR

       Written by Eero Tamminen <oak at helsinkinet fi>.

LICENSE

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the GNU General Public License as  published  by  the  Free  Software  Foundation;  either
       version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

NO WARRANTY

       This  program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY;
       without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR  PURPOSE.
       See the GNU General Public License for more details.