Object File Cross-Reference System
As a professional C programmer, I’ve had to deal with extremely large programs. Part of this work involved integration of software whose components were made in Finland, the United States, China, and Korea. Needless to say, sometimes the parts don’t go together smoothly.
One common problem I have to deal with is symbol conflicts that occur at link time. Frequently, I will get duplicate symbols or undefined symbols.
Using grep to search through several thousand files is prohibitively slow, so I devised the object cross-referencing system. It consists of two parts: the ox–gen.pl program that generates the object cross-reference and the ox.pl program that queries it.
ox-gen.pl
The job of the ox–gen.pl program ...
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