Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!infopiz!lupine!rfg From: rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++ Subject: Re: C++ and debugger for SVR4 (386/486)? Message-ID: <4609@lupine.NCD.COM> Date: 25 Mar 91 00:59:53 GMT References: <360@oiscola.Columbia.NCR.COM> <4456@lupine.NCD.COM> Distribution: comp Organization: Network Computing Devices, Inc., Mt. View, CA Lines: 24 In article cimshop!davidm@uunet.UU.NET (David S. Masterson) writes: >>>>>> On 16 Mar 91 00:14:17 GMT, rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) said: > >Ron> Later on I hope to be in a position to provide GNU software tools (i.e. >Ron> C compiler, C++ compiler, and debugger) which work with ELF (that's the >Ron> easy part) and with "extended" DWARF (i.e. the hard part) to provide a >Ron> robust debugging environment for C++ on System V Release 4. > >Okay, I'll bite. What are "ELF" and "DWARF"? ELF stands for "Extensible Linking Format" (or some such thing). It is the new object file format which is now being used in System V Release 4. DWARF is the debugging information format which is being used within System V Release 4 ELF files by almost everybody who is using V.4 (except Sun). -- // Ron ("Shoot From The Hip") Guilmette // Internet: rfg@ncd.com uucp: ...uunet!lupine!rfg // New motto: If it ain't broke, try using a bigger hammer.