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Re: mdebug?
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: mdebug?
- From: Michael Meissner <meissner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 16:58:10 -0500
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
- References: <14563.50531.341290.804769@kwikemart.cygnus.com>
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 04:21:39PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
>
> Does anybody know something about mdebug?
In the past, I knew something of the format. Unfortunately, the only document
I ever saw on it (other than the DEC include files) is a hard copy of the DEC
Pmax assembler guide, that I may have somewhere.
> I am trying to figure out a problem in gdb which untilmately is due
> to some limitation of mdebug.
> Is there any documentation at all about how the debug symbols are built?
The program mips-tdump.c in the gcc release, in the distant past dumped the
debug tables for MIPS and later Alpha ecoff systems. Whether it has suffered
bit rot in the 9+ years since I wrote it, I don't know.
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