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| 2 | 1.0.2 |
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| 3 | ----- |
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| 4 | |
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| 5 | David Paktor: |
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| 6 | The most prominent change is that the Tokenizer's Message |
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| 7 | format has been expanded to show the current Output Position |
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| 8 | and, if applicable, the position relative to the end of the |
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| 9 | most recent PCI Header (to keep in sync with Offset numbers |
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| 10 | displayed by the DeTokenizer.) |
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| 12 | The Symbol-Tracing feature has been changed and expanded: |
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| 13 | Its Messages are no longer Advisories, but a class of their |
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| 14 | own called Trace-Notes. When a Traced Symbol is created, the |
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| 15 | Trace-Note Message gives the new Symbol's assigned FCode Token |
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| 16 | (when applicable) in addition to the Data-Type and Scope of |
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| 17 | the definition. |
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| 19 | A Trace-Note Message is now also issued when a Traced Symbol |
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| 20 | is invoked. Symbol-Tracing is not fooled by aliases, and a |
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| 21 | failed attempt to create or invoke a Traced Symbol will also |
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| 22 | cause a Trace-Note Message to be displayed. |
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| 24 | These expansions are based on some questions asked by one of |
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| 25 | my colleagues while maintaining a very large and convoluted |
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| 26 | body of Legacy code -- questions like: "Where is such-and-so |
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| 27 | definition coming from?" "Which version of it is being used |
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| 28 | here?" "How can I find where exactly that is in the Binary?" |
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| 30 | Another change is based on the recent exchange of letters with |
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| 31 | Rolf Schroedter concerning the use of the emit-fcode command. |
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| 32 | In the previous version, arguments to the emit-fcode command |
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| 33 | were limited to the range of user-defined FCodes, i.e., 0x800 |
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| 34 | to 0xFFF. The new version permits numbers in the entire range |
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| 35 | of valid FCodes, 0x010 to 0xFFF, which includes the sub-ranges |
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| 36 | that are reserved for Vendor-Specific FCodes. |
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