NAME

       gst2ascii - Filter and output Atari program symbol table as ASCII

SYNOPSIS

       gst2ascii [options] <program>

DESCRIPTION

       gst2ascii  reads  (GNU-style  a.out  or  traditional  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 (latter
       doesn't accept any other format).

       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.

       -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.

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

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.

Hatari                                             2017-11-11                                       GST2ASCII(1)