From: Dan Towner <dant@picochip.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: New object file parser?
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D2F0A4F.85D201C6@picochip.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <npit3kvqjj.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Jim Blandy wrote:
> Well, there's S-records. I don't know if they can carry symbol
> information, though. I think not.
>
> If you need a symbol table, I'd say a.out is probably the simplest one
> there is. You can probably find documentation for a.out in the SunOS
> 4 man pages, or perhaps somewhere on the Web.
>
> The next question is, what debugging format do you use? Converting
> debugging info from the proprietary format to STABS or Dwarf is going
> to be the hard part, I'd bet.
It already uses STABS, it just stores it in a slightly odd way.
Dan.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-12 9:02 Dan Towner
2002-07-12 9:50 ` Jim Blandy
2002-07-12 9:55 ` Dan Towner [this message]
2002-07-12 10:11 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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