Re: How to extract debugging information from ELF/DWARF files?

James Cownie <jcownie@etnus.com>
11 Mar 2004 12:51:21 -0500

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From: James Cownie <jcownie@etnus.com>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 11 Mar 2004 12:51:21 -0500
Organization: blueyonder (post doesn't reflect views of blueyonder)
References: 04-03-028
Keywords: debug, linker
Posted-Date: 11 Mar 2004 12:51:21 EST

Joerg Fischer wrote:


> I am writing an ARM-ELF reader in Java for an own debugging tool. I am
> able to read the section header, program header, string and symbol
> tables but I do not understand how I have to interpret the Dwarf2
> debugging information sections, like ".debug_info", ".debug_line", and
> so on.


Full up-to-date DWARF documentation is available here :-
      http://www.eagercon.com/dwarf/dwarf3std.htm


That includes full details of how the line number state-machine
works.


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