nld and noft Manual

nld and noft Manual—520384-003
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4 noft Utility
The noft utility, the native object file tool, displays all portions of native object files.
Subsections:
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Running the noft Utility in the Guardian Environment on page 4-1
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Running the noft Utility in the OSS Environment on page 4-3
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Listing Object Files on page 4-4
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Dumping Object Files on page 4-5
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Controlling the noft Environment on page 4-5
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Debugging With noft on page 4-7
Running the noft Utility in the Guardian
Environment
You can use the noft utility as an interactive or batch process, but noft is most often
used as an interactive process. To run the noft utility in the Guardian environment,
use the TACL command RUN. The most common forms of RUN used for noft follow.
For complete information on RUN, see the TACL Reference Manual.
[RUN] NOFT
is the TACL command to start the noft process.
command-file
is an edit file containing one or more noft options. If the file contains more than
one option, options must be separated by semicolons (;).
If both a command-file and options are given, noft ignores the command-file.
To run noft interactively:
[RUN] NOFT
To quit running noft interactively:
{ EXIT | E | QUIT | Q }
To run noft with a command file:
[RUN] NOFT [ / IN command-file [, OUT output-filename ] / ]
To run noft from the command line:
[RUN] NOFT option [; option ]...