Re: [PATCH] Naming dwarves

James Cownie
2003-05-19T13:07:17Z

Mark Kettenis wrote :-

> There is also a public draft for DWARF Version 3, which should be
> largely binary compatible with Version 2. Standardization of Version
> 3 seems to have stopped, but some of the proposed extensions are
> already in use.

It's about to start up again (there was a hiatus when the dot com bust
happened, since at that point none of the companies wanted to pay any
money to have a "real" standard produced).

This message from Michael Eager gives the current status

Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 12:12:15 -0700
From: Michael Eager <eager@eagercon.com>
To: Dwarf 2 <dwarf2@els.sgi.com>
Cc: Scott McNeil <mcneil@freestandards.org>
Subject: DWARF Standard becoming part of Free Standards Group
Sender: owner-dwarf2@els.sgi.com

As you may know, for some time I've been working on finding a
standards organization with which to affiliate the DWARF standard.

I've looked into a variety of organizations, ranging from the
"heavy weight's" of ANSI or IEEE, and the lighter weight organization
like IEEE-ISTO. I believe that the Free Standards Group offers
us an excellent combination of stability and public visiblity.

You may be familiar with Free Standards Group because it is the
home of the Linux Standards Base (FSG and LSB, respectively, for
those who like TLAs). You can find more info about FSG at
http://www.freestandardsgroup.org. While FSG has been closely
associated with Linux in the past, its charter is broader and
does encompass architecture-independent standards like DWARF.

In the next few weeks, we will create a web page at FSG for
DWARF which will include the Public Review Draft which has
been languishing on my system for a long while. We will arrange
for public comments to be collected and evaluated. I also hope
to be able to add a FAQ and perhaps some other materials to
the web site which will make using DWARF easier. FSG also
has facilities for spam-filtered mailing lists.

--
Michael Eager Eager Consulting eager@eagercon.com
1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077

The DWARF 3 site is at http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf3std.htm
I'm not sure how you get on the mailing list, but talking to Mike
Eager seems a good start...

-- Jim

James Cownie <jcownie@etnus.com>
Etnus, LLC. +44 117 9071438