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.\" @(#)symorder.1 6.5 (Berkeley) 4/22/91
.\" $FreeBSD$
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.Dd April 22, 1991
.Dt SYMORDER 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm symorder
.Nd rearrange name list
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl c
.Op Fl m
.Op Fl t
.Op Fl x Ar excludelist
.Ar symlist file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The file
.Ar symlist
contains a list of symbols to be found in
.Ar file ,
one symbol per line.
.Pp
The symbol table of
.Ar file
is updated in place;
symbols read from
.Ar symlist
are relocated to the beginning of the table and in the order given.
.Pp
The following options are available:
.Bl -tag -width indent
.It Fl c
Make all any symbols not in
.Ar symlist
local to this file.
.It Fl t
Restrict the symbol table to the symbols listed in
.Ar symlist .
.It Fl x Ar excludelist
Exclude the symbols listed in
.Ar excludelist
from the symbol table.
.It Fl m
Exit with status zero, even if some symbols are missing.
.El
.Pp
This program was specifically designed to cut down on the
overhead of getting symbols from
.Pa /boot/kernel/kernel .
.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
The
.Nm
utility exits 0 on success, 1 if a symbol
listed in the
.Ar symlist
file was not found in the symbol
table, and >1 if an error occurs.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr nm 1 ,
.Xr strip 1 ,
.Xr nlist 3
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm
command appeared in
.Bx 3.0 .