noft Manual (G06.26+)
Table Of Contents
- What’s New in This Manual
- About This Manual
- 1 Introduction
- 2 noft Utility
- 3 noft Options
- Break Key
- ! (Exclamation Point)
- CD
- COMMENT
- DUMPADDRESS or DA
- DUMPOFFSET or DO
- DUMPPROC or DP
- DYNSTR2
- ENV
- EXIT or E
- FC
- FILE or F
- HELP or ?
- HISTORY or H
- LAYOUT
- LIBLIST
- LISTATTRIBUTE or LA
- LISTCOMPILERS or LC
- LISTOPTIMIZE or LO
- LISTPROC or LP
- LISTSOURCE or LS
- LISTSRLEXPORTS or LLE
- LISTSRLFIXUPS or LLF
- LISTSRLINFO or LLI
- LISTUNREFERENCED or LUR
- LISTUNRESOLVED or LU
- LOG
- OBEY
- OUT
- QUIT or Q
- RESET
- SET
- SHOW
- SYSTEM or VOLUME
- XREFPROC or XP
- 4 noft Diagnostic Messages
- 5 ar Utility
- 6 ar Diagnostic Messages
- A Sample nld and noft Session
- B Converting From Binder to noft
- C Native Object File Structure
- Glossary
- Index

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3 noft Options
An option is a flag and its parameters, if any. Use the noft options to specify the input
object file, control the noft environment, and control the format of noft output. This
section describes the syntax and semantics of noft options and provides examples of
each option.
Table 3-1 on page 3-1 lists the noft flags in alphabetic order. For tables that list noft
flags by function, see:
•
Table 2-1, noft Listing Options, on page 2-4
•
Table 2-2, noft Dumping Options, on page 2-4
•
Table 2-3, noft Control Options, on page 2-5
Table 3-1. noft Flag Summary (page 1 of 3)
Flag Description
Break Key
on page 3-3 Terminates the output of the current option and, if noft
is running from the command line, terminates the noft
program itself.
! (Exclamation Point)
on page 3-4 Executes a previously executed command line. (Use
only in an interactive session.)
CD
on page 3-5 Changes the current working directory used to search
for relative filenames. (Use only in OSS environment.)
COMMENT
on page 3-5 Allows comments in noft command files.
DUMPADDRESS or DA
on
page 3-6
Displays code and data from a virtual address inside an
object file’s memory space.
DUMPOFFSET or DO
on
page 3-8
Displays code and data from a physical offset within the
object file.
DUMPPROC or DP
on page 3-10 Displays the contents of a procedure or part of a
procedure.
DYNSTR2
on page 3-13 Displays the Dynstr2 Section of an object file created by
the ld utility.
ENV
on page 3-14 Displays the current settings of environment
parameters.
EXIT or E
on page 3-15 Stops the noft process.
FC
on page 3-15 Edits or repeats a previously executed command line.
(Use only in an interactive session.)
FILE or F
on page 3-16 Specifies the name of the target object file.
HELP or ?
on page 3-17 Displays descriptions and syntax for options.
HISTORY or H
on page 3-20 Displays previously entered command lines. (Use only
in an interactive session.)
LAYOUT
on page 3-21 Lists the parts of an object file in order by file offset.