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Re: stabs or ecoff for Linux/mips
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: stabs or ecoff for Linux/mips
- From: Ian Lance Taylor <ian at zembu dot com>
- Date: 07 Jun 2001 11:20:05 -0700
- Cc: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>, GDB <gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot cygnus dot com, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com
- References: <20010607093332.C13198@lucon.org> <3B1FC23D.3020900@cygnus.com><20010607111324.C15440@lucon.org>
"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 02:04:45PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > dwarf2
> > stabs
> > not ecoff (er, isn't ecoff an object format like coff? I guess you mean
> > something like Dwarf1)
ECOFF is both an object file format and a debugging format. Irix (at
least Irix 5) uses the ECOFF debugging format with the ELF object file
format (ECOFF smuggled in ELF).
The ECOFF debugging format can also be called mdebug or Third Eye, but
most people simply call it ECOFF.
Ian