symbols

What does this eclipse symbol mean?

Hi, i can't seem to find this symbol in the Eclipse documentation, and i'm no expert in using Eclipse. Can anyone explain to me what it means? The symbol: It's the arrow that confuses me. Can it be a shared resource? Thanks in advance! ...

In Perl, how can I call a method whose name I have in a string?

I'm trying to write some abstract code for searching through a list of similar objects for the first one whose attributes match specific values. In order to do this, I need to call a bunch of accessor methods and check all their values one by one. I'd like to use an abstraction like this: sub verify_attribute { my ($object, $attribu...

How to create a new IDA project based on an existing one with different offsets?

I have an existing IDA Pro project for a C166 processor embedded application. This project already has many functions, variables, etc defined. There are different versions of the embedded application I am looking at. The different versions of the application are 99% the same, but with slight variations in code and data that cause functi...

WinDbg can't find mfc90 version 9.0.30729.4148 symbols on msdl.microsoft.com

I think the title states my problem fairly well. Where are those mfc symbols? Some background info: I have a crash dump that I want to analyze in WinDbg. My symbol path contains msdl.microsoft.com/download/symbols (and it says h t t p first but I'm a new user here so I'm not allowed to write that twice. The 9.0.30729.4148 version...

Sql server messed up degree symbol

Some of the degree sysmbols in my sql server database are displaying like this: 173┬░F. When I do a search for that - SELECT * FROM PRoduct WHERE description LIKE '%┬░%', it does not bring them up. How can I find (and replace) such characters? ...

Export images from flash

First of all let my clarify that I am a flash noob, this is a freelance job I am doing for someone. I have a flash files with symbols I need to export as PNG images, for some reason the exported images have different width and height than indicated in the flash file. After checking I found out that the new dimensions don't even keep the...

What does :this means in Ruby on Rails?

Hi, I'm new to the Ruby and Ruby on Rails world. I've read some guides, but i've some trouble with the following syntax. I think that the usage of :condition syntax is used in Ruby to define a class attribute with some kind of accessor, like: class Sample attr_accessor :condition end that implicitly declares the getter and setter f...

In Rails models; for symbols get automatically converted to YAML when saving to DB. What is the correct approach?

In my model example Game, has a status column. But I usually set status by using symbols. Example self.status = :active MATCH_STATUS = { :betting_on => "Betting is on", :home_team_won => "Home team has won", :visiting_team_won => "Visiting team has one", :game_tie => "Game is tied" }.freeze def viewable...

Using GCC 4 symbols visibility feature on class methods

Hello, We're building our project (with Xcode 3.2.2 on Mac OS X 10.6.3, GCC 4.0.1) using the -fvisibility=hidden flag. We mark the classes we want to be visible with __attribute__((visibility("default"))). For further optimization, should we be marking with __attribute__((visibility("hidden"))) the methods inside these classes that shou...

Symbols taking very, very long time to load when hosting ASP.NET app in IIS

Hi, I'm hosting my project using IIS, running from Visual Studio. Whenever I recompile, on the first run it takes several minutes (on a not awful machine) to load all the symbols. Please see http://joshz.com/so/symbols.html for a list of the symbols that are loaded. At the bottom there is a ThreadAbortException, I'm not sure if this i...

windbg and symbols

When I set a breakpoint on one of the methods that appears on top of the stack (!CLRStack), I get lots of these messages for every DLL that the debuggee is referencing including the .NET Framework ones. ERROR: Module load completed but symbols could not be loaded Further digging into this shows that windbg is not loading every .pdb fil...

How to see .net library source code with ReSharper 5 and visual studio 2010?

I used to see any .net source code (like System.String) with ReSharper and Visual Studio 2008. since I migrated to Visual studio 2010, this option doesn't give the full source code but just the definitions of the class. How can I fix this, to use the microsoft's symbols server again? Edit: Maybe the problem is only with .net-4.0 assemb...

Include pdbs in installer?

Is there any reason to not include pdb files in an installer? I have C++ logging functionality that walks the stack, and reports line numbers and file names. It would be great if my customers could send me logs with this information. However, they would need the pdb files. Is there any downside (other than installer package size) to depl...

How to show symbols like "Lambda" or "Mu" on labels in desktop application in c#.net

Please tell me how can i show symbols like "lambda" or Mu using c#.net in desktop application. what i think is we may do it using ASCII values and convert.toChar();.. if i am right that please give me link of page where i can get ASCII values of all such a scientific symbols. Please give me link of any URL which contains list of such a ...

Why doesn't every, and I mean it, language have this feature?

Some time ago I had a look into Ruby and one of the things which stood out most for me was the way of using symbols. While you to use defines or strings like in C++ or Python as an alternative, in Ruby you just write :mySymbol and the interpreter takes over the enumeration for you. I can't see any disadvantage this feature has, so why...

How do you construct a symbol in clojure?

I want to construct a macro that, given a symbol 'foo, creates a method called foo*. How can I concatenate 'foo and '*? ...

How to check value of defined symbols (Eclipse->Paths & Symbols) in a makefile?

We have a project that used to be an Eclipse-managed CDT project. However, I am trying to change it to a standard makefile project. One of them has a couple of symbols defined in Project Properties->C/C++ General->Paths & Symbols->Symbols. The makefiles generated by Eclipse used to automatically get the value when it was managed. Th...

Ruby on Rails- :symbols, @iVars and "strings" - oh my!

New to Rails and trying to get my head around when/why to use :symbols, @ivars , "strings" within the framework. I think I understand the differences between them conceptually only one :symbol instance per project one @ivar per instance multiple "strings" - as they are created whenever referenced (?) Feel free to correct me! The ma...

Template Class – Symbols not found

I've seen a few related posts, but I can't really make sense of what I need to do to fix a program I'm making for my entry-level C++ class. My errors are: Build Final Project of project Final Project with configuration Debug Ld "build/Debug/Final Project" normal x86_64 cd "/Users/nick/Dropbox/|Syncs/Xcode/Final Project" setenv MACOSX...

How to get the PDB (symbols) from an assembly when built into an MSI

I have a standard MSI being created using Visual Studio 2008. Is there any way that I can have it copy the symbols of the exact DLLs and EXEs that were placed into the MSI somewhere so that I can use them for remote debugging of an installation from that MSI? ...