Author Topic: Map files (Read 1832 times)

first500 · « **on:** August 08, 2007, 10:37:18 AM »

Please forgive what may be a naive question, but on the Daily Builds page there is now a Map File available for download.

What exactly do you do with this? (clean answers only, please)

bascule · « **Reply #1 on:** August 08, 2007, 10:56:18 AM »

I had a quick look through the IRC logs and I believe they are developers' files for debugging a build.

How/what they do was not explained...

LambdaCalculus · « **Reply #2 on:** August 08, 2007, 10:59:37 AM »

I think it's to map changes to the code, but I'm not 100% sure myself.

By the way, and not to be mean about it... you could've posted this in General Discussion, you know.

saratoga · « **Reply #3 on:** August 08, 2007, 11:10:07 AM »

map files give the layout of rockbox executables in memory. They're useful for debugging.

LambdaCalculus · « **Reply #4 on:** August 08, 2007, 11:21:15 AM »

A little slice of information that's always good to know... thanks for the info, saratoga!

scorche · « **Reply #5 on:** August 08, 2007, 08:09:05 PM »

So, for example, when you get, say, a data abort at xxxxxxxx, you can reference that string with the map to figure out "where" the data abort happened.

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