DWARF2 and COFF?

Mark E. snowball3@bigfoot.com
Sat Dec 2 06:30:00 GMT 2000


Hi guys,
I've seen some messages from those involved with GDB that they will add 
support for C++ debugging with the gcc 3.0 abi first with DWARF2 then stabs. 
This got me wondering if dwarf2 could work with COFF (or at least the djgpp 
flavor of COFF). At first, I only had to make a few tweaks, but then I ran 
into problems with bfd/dwarf2.c which makes use of 'elf_tdata (abfd)-
>dwarf2_find_line_info' which obviously doesn't work in a COFF environment.

It is my understanding that while dwarf2 happens to be used by environments 
that use ELF, it is not dependant on ELF. Assuming my understanding is 
correct, can bfd/dwarf2.c be made generic or should I just give up?

Mark



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