PRINTA

Format:	     PRINTA <file> [NOHUNK]

Template:    PRINTA "FROM/A,NOHUNK/S"

Purpose:     To print the contents of Amiga binary format files.

Specification:

PRINTA prints Amiga binary object files from an assembler or a linker, such
as ALINK. To understand the meaning of the output of PRINTA, you should read
the chapter "AmigaDOS Binary File Structure," of The AmigaDOS Manual.

Entering NOHUNK after your file name causes PRINTA to suppress printing the
actual contents of code and data hunks.

Example:

1> PRINTA startup.obj
HUNK.CODE
23F80004 00000004 23CF0000 00004EB9 00000000 42802E79 00000000
4E75202F 000460F2
HUNK.RELOC32 HUNK=1 [00000018] [0000000A] [00000004]
HUNK.EXT [1] [_exit...]Val=0000001E
HUNK.EXT [129] [_main...] [00000010]
T.END
HUNK.BSS [00000003]
HUNK.EXT [1] [_errno...] Val=00000008
HUNK.EXT [1] [_SysBase] Val=00000004
T.END

Examine this print out in parts:

HUNK.CODE
23F80004 00000004 23CF0000 00004EB9 00000000 42802E79 00000000
4E75202F 000460F2

The file "startup.obj" has a CODE hunk with the data listed in hexadecimal.

HUNK.RELOC32 HUNK=1 [00000018] [0000000A] [00000004]

The CODE has three values relative to itself (HUNK=1) at offsets 18, A and 4
from the start of the hunk.

HUNK.EXT [1] [_exit...]Val=0000001E

The CODE has an external reference to itself ([1]) called _exit which is 1E
bytes from the start of the hunk.


HUNK.EXT [129] [_main...] [00000010]

The CODE has an external reference to _main in some other hunk (which must
be linked in later before the code will be loadable).

HUNK.BSS [00000003]

Following the CODE hunk is a BSS (uninitialized data area) hunk.  The BSS is
3 long words long (12 bytes).

HUNK.EXT [1] [_errno...] Val=00000008
HUNK.EXT [1] [_SysBase] Val=00000004

The symbol _errno, which is 8 bytes from the base of the BSS hunk, is
referenced by the CODE (hunk [1]).  The symbol _SysBase, which is 4 bytes
from the base of the BSS hunk, is also referenced by the CODE (hunk [1]).

See Also:	    ALINK, ABSLOAD