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Re: New object file parser?


Jim Blandy wrote:

> Well, there's S-records.  I don't know if they can carry symbol
> information, though.  I think not.
> 
> If you need a symbol table, I'd say a.out is probably the simplest one
> there is.  You can probably find documentation for a.out in the SunOS
> 4 man pages, or perhaps somewhere on the Web.
> 
> The next question is, what debugging format do you use?  Converting
> debugging info from the proprietary format to STABS or Dwarf is going
> to be the hard part, I'd bet.

It already uses STABS, it just stores it in a slightly odd way.

Dan.

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