Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/06/17/04:05:19
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
> I know gdb is bloated but the best is to use it.
> What's used by objdump?
I believe both GDB and objdump use the BFD library to access the binary
files in different format.
Btw, it is quite possible that by rearranging some of the GDB and/or BFD
code you could make both GDB (in the DJGPP port) and any other code that
needs to access the debug info, much smaller. Currently, we are linking
in a lot of BFD formats that are unsupported by DJGPP, like ELF, DWARF,
and what's not. Last time I asked Robert about this, he told me that
removing those modules causes unresolved externals. But those are
probably artificial problems, and at the very least writing empty stubs
for them will do.
I don't know if GDB 4.17 is any better in this respect.
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