From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31091 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2002 16:55:51 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31009 invoked from network); 12 Jul 2002 16:55:50 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO monopoly.uk.clara.net) (212.126.144.50) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Jul 2002 16:55:50 -0000 Received: from adsl-solo-39-123.claranet.co.uk ([213.253.39.123] helo=picochip.com) by monopoly.uk.clara.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #8) id 17T3hs-000Aaw-00; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 17:55:48 +0100 Message-ID: <3D2F0A4F.85D201C6@picochip.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:55:00 -0000 From: Dan Towner Organization: picoChip Designs Ltd. X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim Blandy CC: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: New object file parser? References: <3D2EFDE0.159BCF83@picochip.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-07/txt/msg00134.txt.bz2 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. ============================================================================= Daniel Towner picoChip Designs Ltd., Riverside Buildings, 108, Walcot Street, BATH, BA1 5BG dant@picochip.com 07786 702589