Filenames in MAPSYM Commandline

ID Number: Q11372

4.00

MS-DOS

Problem:

MAPSYM does not properly recognize commandline arguments of the

following type:

MAPSYM A:PROGRAM

Filenames with preceding drive letters and no explicit path are not

properly recognized. In these cases, MAPSYM enters the symbol

A:PROGRAM into the .SYM file with the value 0000, so that all symbols

in the file are incorrect.

Response:

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Version 4.00. This

problem was corrected in Version 5.00 with a new symbolic debugger

called CodeView.

A workaround to this problem is to specify a full path name when you

want to process a file from another drive, as in the following

example:

MAPSYM A:\PROGRAM