binutils, bfd library, debug.h/c files and so on...

[Ian Lance Taylor]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:53:12PM -0700, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
> > > How will I get all functionality that I need - do I
> > > (1) include directly all needed files (2) get a
> > > precompiled library from binutils and link it against
> > > my application.
> > 
> > They are not currently in any library.  If somebody wants to put them
> > into a library, I wouldn't object.  I don't think it would be too
> > hard.
> 
> There's definitely some benefit for a format-agnostic debug info
> library - but what the formats can represent varies drastically, so it
> seems like a substantial project.

In principle all the basic stuff is there in debug.h.  It's true that
it can't currently represent everything that DWARF can represent, but
it can represent pretty much everything that anybody other than a
debugger or a stack unwinder would care about.

> Reading this thread I wonder if we
> should just recommend libdwarf instead for DWARF-2.

Definitely something to consider.  I haven't looked at libdwarf
myself.

Ian