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@(#)symorder.1 6.4 (Berkeley) 04/01/91

SYMORDER 1 "%Q"
C
NAME
symorder - rearrange name list
SYNOPSIS
symorder [-t] symlist file
DESCRIPTION
The file symlist contains a list of symbols expected to be found in file , one symbol per line.

The file file is updated in place to place the listed symbols first in the symbol table, in the order specified.

The options are as follows:

-t Restrict the symbol table to the symbols listed in symlist .

The symorder utility exits 0 on success, 1 if a symbol listed in the symlist file was not found in the symbol table, and >1 if an error occurs.

This program was specifically designed to cut down on the overhead of getting extracting symbols from the kernel.

"SEE ALSO"
nm(1), strip(1), nlist(3)