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32.\" @(#)symorder.1 6.5 (Berkeley) 4/22/91
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34.Dd April 22, 1991
35.Dt SYMORDER 1
36.Os BSD 3
37.Sh NAME
38.Nm symorder
39.Nd rearrange name list
40.Sh SYNOPSIS
41.Nm symorder
42.Fl t Ar symlist file
43.Sh DESCRIPTION
44The file
45.Ar symlist
46contains a list of symbols to be found in
47.Ar file,
48one symbol per line.
49.Pp
50The symbol table of
51.Ar file
52is updated in place;
53symbols read from
54.Ar symlist
55are relocated to the beginning of the table and in the order given.
56.Bl -tag -width flag
57.It Fl t
58Restrict the symbol table to the symbols listed in
59.Ar symlist .
60.El
61.Pp
62This program was specifically designed to cut down on the
63overhead of getting symbols from
64.Pa /vmunix.
65.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
66The
67.Nm symorder
68utility exits 0 on success, 1 if a symbol
69listed in the
70.Ar symlist
71file was not found in the symbol
72table, and >1 if an error occurs.
73.Sh SEE ALSO
74.Xr nm 3 ,
75.Xr nlist 3 ,
76.Xr strip 3
77.Sh HISTORY
78The
79.Nm
80command appeared in
81.Bx 3.0 .