[CDG5] Process Manager

[Elliot Nunn]

Sorry about the spam...

It could be useful to write something to produce file x segment
cross-references like this one I did by hand.

. .M.......  Error.a
. .M.......  OSDispatch.a
. IM...K...  ProcessMgrMisc.a
. .....K...  Switch.a
. .M.......  ZoomRect.a
. IM...K.E.  Startup.c
. .....K...  AppleEventExtensions.c
G .........  Data.c
. .....K..D  Debugger.c
. .M.......  DeskMgrPatches.c
G .......E.  Eppc.c
. IM......D  Error.c
G .M.......  EventMgrPatches.c
G IM.......  FileSystem.c
. .....K...  HList.c
G .....K...  LayerMgrPatches.c
. .M.......  Memory.c
G IMZ......  MemoryMgrPatches.c
. .....K...  MemoryMgr24Patches.c
. ...3.....  MemoryMgr32Patches.c
G IM...K...  MenuMgrPatches.c
G .....K...  OSDispatch.c
. .M.......  PackageMgrPatches.c
G IM.......  Patches.c
G .....K...  Processes.c
G IM.......  Puppet.c
G .M.......  Queue.c
. .M.......  ResourceMgrPatches.c
. .....K...  Schedule.c
. .M...K...  ScrapCoercion.c
. IM...K...  SegmentLoaderPatches.c
. .M.......  Sleep.c
. IM...K...  Switch.c
. .....K...  Utilities.c
. .M.......  WindowMgrPatches.c
. .M.......  Interface.o
. .........  Runtime.o
| |||||||||
. ......... Debugger
. ........ eppc_segment
. ....... %A5Init
. ...... kernel_segment
. ..... zone24_tools
. .... zone32_tools
. ... zone_tools
. .. Main
. . INIT
. global

> On 31 Dec 2018, at 11:03 am, Elliot Nunn <elliotnunn at fastmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Got it!
> 
> Things that didn't change the layout of jump table entries:
> 
> - order of EntryPoint records in .o files
> - order of references made to EntryPoints
> - linker version
> - swearing
> 
> In the end I just trawled through the manpage for Link and tried
> everything (thanks Jason). The -map option (I was using the -l option
> for my link maps) apparently has a subtle side effect, and fixed my jump
> table. Unfortunately there is very little segmented code for which we
> have any source, so this is not exactly a transferrable skill.
> 
> Getting a perfect binary output isn't *entirely* self-indulgence on my
> part. It allows us to start and patches or mods from a known-good
> version of our source.
> 
> Daniel, there is actually code here to build a ProcessMgrINIT. I'll get
> that working and try it out.
> 
>> On 31 Dec 2018, at 1:26 am, Daniel B-J <danielbj314 at verizon.net> wrote:
>> 
>> Maybe when it isn't like midnight for you (your dedication is impressive), you should write a tool for working with System Files. Maybe take a known good System File, overwrite some parts of it (isn't that what an enabler does? Could do something clever there), and stick the result in a image for miniVMac to try.
> 
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