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Re: [RFA] Make sym_read routines handle separate debug files
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:13:05PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote:
> After I sent my note, I wondered about folks doing something like
> building an ELF executable, objcopy'ing it to some other format for
> running it, but continuing to use the ELF for debugging. Do people do
> that?
Yes, e.g. uClinux, but...
> If so then that would be a situation where the primary objfile could be
> of any type, but still have separate debug info.
then you just give GDB the ELF file. I've never seen a reference from
a non-ELF executable to ELF debug info.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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