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Re: mdebug?
Michael Meissner writes:
> 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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Thanks Mike.
I also found that this document at:
http://reality.sgi.com/davea/objectinfo.html
has a pointer to a mdebug.ps file containing some description of the mdebug
format. In this, there is mention of an SGI utility available on IRIX
called stdump.
Elena