Technical Notes Database
TN4041C.txt TA - DEBUG .COM FILE
Category :Pascal
Platform :All
Product :TD 1.x 2.0
Description:
Q. How do you debug a .COM file? I can debug my program as an
exe file but not as a com file.
A. Due to the structure of a .COM file it cannot contain debug
information. When you specify a file to be debugged the
Turbo Debugger first looks for an exe file and then for a
.COM file. The debugger will look for a symbol table in a
file of the same name with a .TDS extension. You can
create such a file with the utility TDSTRIP. By using the
-c (create .COM file) and -s(put symbol table in .TDS file)
options you can create a com file and symbol table file in
one step.
The line
TDSTRIP -c -s exefilename
creates exefilename.com and exefilename.tds. Note that the
-c and -s must be separated by a space.
Reference:
7/2/98 10:45:33 AM
Last Modified: 01-SEP-99