From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Aug 9 10:38:43 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id KAA26088 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:38:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (root@sunrise.CS.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.38.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAA26083 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:38:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id KAA21717 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 10:38:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id UAA18047; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:44:33 +0300 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 20:44:33 +0300 (EET DST) From: Narvi To: Warner Losh cc: "Hr.Ladavac" , hackers%FreeBSD.ORG@sunrise.cs.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: What are the plans for ELF support? In-Reply-To: <199608091517.JAA09511@rover.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 9 Aug 1996, Warner Losh wrote: > : [1] The second half is much fabled DWARF which nobody seems to use. > > SGI's Irix does, at least in 6.2. Recent versions of gcc even support > it, but recent == development snapshots, not 2.7.2. I found a draft document on version 2 of dwarf and it seemed quite cool with all the information you can provide about the code among the debugging information. So should the question really be - when will FreeBSD support DWARF? If I didn't read things two wrong you would be able with the use of it get debugging information to the extent that the debugger could show you the call tree and the statement (everyone writes one statement on a line, right?) if there is access to the source code, which caused that damn SIGSEV. Ok, maybe I am a bit overenthusiastic on the moment... Sander > > Warner >