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Re: New object file parser?
On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 05:56:47PM +0100, Dan Towner wrote:
> 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.
In all honesty, although it is slightly more effort, I recommend using
ELF instead. If you aren't trying to be terribly complicated with it,
then it's fairly straightforward; and UNLIKE a.out, it is very well
documented.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer