Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!news.iecc.com!.POSTED!nerds-end From: Charles Chester Newsgroups: comp.compilers Subject: Re: ELF and DWARF tools ? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:18:31 -0500 Organization: Compilers Central Lines: 16 Sender: news@iecc.com Approved: comp.compilers@iecc.com Message-ID: <14-12-014@comp.compilers> References: <14-12-005@comp.compilers> <14-12-008@comp.compilers> NNTP-Posting-Host: news.iecc.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: miucha.iecc.com 1420044512 79419 2001:470:1f07:1126:0:676f:7373:6970 (31 Dec 2014 16:48:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@iecc.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 16:48:32 +0000 (UTC) Keywords: debug, linker Posted-Date: 31 Dec 2014 11:48:32 EST X-submission-address: compilers@iecc.com X-moderator-address: compilers-request@iecc.com X-FAQ-and-archives: http://compilers.iecc.com Xref: csiph.com comp.compilers:1457 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.