Re: ELF to COFF Convertor

lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows)
1 Mar 1997 21:43:16 -0500

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From: lfm@pgroup.com (Larry Meadows)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 1 Mar 1997 21:43:16 -0500
Organization: The Portland Group, Inc.
References: 97-02-100 97-02-148
Keywords: linker

>Ajit Sarnaik SC2202 <sarnaik@asic.mtv.nec.com> wrote:
>>I am trying to find if there exists an ELF to COFF convertor that not only
>>converts the execution sections such as text and data, but also the debug
>>information. Any help would be appreciated.


WRT the debug information, ELF as such doesn't define it -- that would
be DWARF; or there are some implementations (Solaris, for example) that
use stabs or other weird stuff. Plus, COFF per-se isn't rich enough
to represent a lot of things that are often wanted in debugging info;
thus, extensions like XCOFF (IBM).


Debug information is a very tangled web.


lfm
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