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NAME

       gst2ascii - Filter and output Atari program symbol table as ASCII

SYNOPSIS

       gst2ascii [options] <program>

DESCRIPTION

       gst2ascii  reads symbol table from the given Atari program, and outputs it in the ASCII format understood
       by the Hatari debugger and its profiler data post-processor.  Symbol tables in the  traditional  DRI/GST,
       GNU a.out and new GCC PRGELF formats are supported.

       All  symbol  addresses output by the tool are TEXT relative, so when loading them in Hatari debugger, one
       needs to give just TEXT as offset for the 'symbols' command.

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

OPTIONS

       -a     Filter absolute (= value, not address) symbols out from the output.

       -b     Filter BSS symbols out from the output.

       -d     Filter DATA symbols out from the output.

       -f     Filter (object) file/path name symbols out from the output.

       -g     Filter GCC internal (object) symbols out from the output.

       -l     Filter local (.L*) symbols out.  Normally they are useless because they do not  have  names,  just
              numbers.

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

       -s     Filter out symbols with duplicate addresses from the output.

       -t     Filter TEXT symbols out from the output.

       -w     Filter weak symbols out from the output.

       By  default,  same  filter  options  are enabled as in Hatari debugger.  Prefixing option letter with '+'
       instead of '-', keeps the indicated symbol type, if that type was disabled in the tool defaults (or by an
       option given earlier on the command line).

NOTES

       If  you have problems, try with 'nm -n <program>' instead (Atari native or cross-compiler version). If nm
       works, but gst2ascii does not, 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.