Re: ELF and DWARF tools ?

From	Charles Chester <cc.63dw@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	comp.compilers
Subject	Re: ELF and DWARF tools ?
Date	2014-12-30 18:18 -0500
Organization	Compilers Central
Message-ID	<14-12-014@comp.compilers> (permalink)
References	<14-12-005@comp.compilers> <14-12-008@comp.compilers>

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On 12/29/14 08:05, Walter Banks wrote (in part, responding to John Levine):
> This isn't going to help much. I have plenty of coding scars to show for
> re-implementing compiler elf/dwarf support from scratch. Most of
> what I found comes from a number of issues.
>
> 1) Lack of comprehensive elf/dwarf documentation.

> 2) Extensions to the elf/dwarf files to represent ISA or data types
> specific issues have been a problem.

Well, now I know why I never received an answer to my request (from last
year) for a gentle introduction on adding dwarf support to a compiler --
there appears to be no such document.

C.

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ELF and DWARF tools ? "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com> - 2014-12-29 00:42 -0500
  Re: ELF and DWARF tools ? C Bergström <cbergstrom@pathscale.com> - 2014-12-29 13:22 +0700
  Re: ELF and DWARF tools ? Hans Aberg <haberg-news@telia.com> - 2014-12-29 10:38 +0100
  Re: ELF and DWARF tools ? Walter Banks <walter@bytecraft.com> - 2014-12-29 08:05 -0500
    Re: ELF and DWARF tools ? Charles Chester <cc.63dw@gmail.com> - 2014-12-30 18:18 -0500

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