This may be of interest for us. It was installed in Sourceware's binutils about a month ago. We may need to add V and v to the `nm' symbol extraction expressions. 2000-01-25 Thomas de Lellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * syms.c (bfd_decode_symclass) Two new class characters were added - 'V' and 'v'. The meaning of 'W' is now restricted to just weak functions. nm for example now dumps: 'W' = weak global function 'w' = weak unresolved function 'V' = weak global object 'v' = weak unresolved object -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Enjoy Guaranį Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company aoliva@{redhat, cygnus}.com Free Software Developer and Evangelist CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} Write to mailing lists, not to me