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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
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On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> > In CCS you have the option to use COFF or DWARF. I was planning on using COFF, 
> > because I have noticed some C54x COFF file thingies in the BFD, which could be 
> > usable :-D. Do you know if they are?.
> 
> If those are the two switches that's pretty bizarre.  COFF is a file
> format, DWARF a debug info format.

Not 100% accurate, AFAIK: there's also COFF debug info format.

> You probably want DWARF (DWARF-2) which implies ELF format files.

DWARF-2 is also supported with COFF binary format.  DJGPP uses that 
combination.