sym

The sym command sets a symbolic name for a variable.
   

Format

The format for this command is:

sym name value

where:

name  

 is the name of the variable for which a value is to be set. 

value  

 is the value to which the variable is set. 

Functional Description

The sym command sets a symbolic name to the specified value.
 
Normally the file load commands clears the symbol table. However, there is an option to override the clearing of the symbol table (see the load, netboot and scsiboot commands for details).

 

Symbols can be displayed using the ls command.

 

Examples illustrating the use of this command follow.
  

PMON> sym start 9fc00240


PMON> sym flush_cache 9fc016f0


PMON> l start 4

start+0x240 3c09a07f    lui     t1,0xa07f
start+0x244 3c08003c    lui     t0,0x3c
start+0x248 3529ff20    ori     t1,t1,0xff20


PMON> l 9fc0027c 5      

start+0x27c 03a1e825    or      sp,sp,at 
start+0x280 0ff005bc    jal     flush_cache
start+0x284 24040000    addiu   a0,zero,0x0
start+0x288 0ff005bc    jal     flush_cache
start+0x28c 24040001    addiu   a0,zero,0x1

See Also

ls, load, l, and sh commands.

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